Heat and Other Stories by Joyce Carol OatesThem by Joyce Carol OatesBecause It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol OatesYou Must Remember This by Joyce Carol OatesWhat I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates
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117 books — 84 voters
Home Fire by Kamila ShamsieExit West by Mohsin HamidAnything Is Possible by Elizabeth StroutBad Dreams and Other Stories by Tessa HadleySing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
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1,744 books — 3,083 voters

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
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53 books — 44 voters
Home Fire by Kamila ShamsieNew People by Danzy Senna
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54 books — 33 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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1,705 books — 6,864 voters
Tenth of December by George SaundersInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriDear Life by Alice MunroThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman AlexieUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Contemporary Short Story Collections
549 books — 334 voters

True Grit by Charles PortisBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyClose Range by Annie ProulxIn the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake
Literary Westerns
282 books — 382 voters

Old Filth by Jane GardamThe Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane GardamZeroville by Steve EricksonSaving Mozart by Raphaël JerusalmyNon avevo capito niente by Diego De Silva
Europa Edition Books
126 books — 140 voters
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip RothSabbath's Theater by Philip RothThe Counterlife by Philip RothPatrimony by Philip RothGoodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
Best Philip Roth Books
32 books — 104 voters

Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William  KennedyThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesThe Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin HaleI Married You for Happiness by Lily TuckWe the Animals by Justin Torres
Best Books of 2011
2,669 books — 6,708 voters
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonPortnoy’s Complaint by Philip RothThe Fixer by Bernard MalamudGimpel the Fool and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis SingerThe Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Jews in Literature
876 books — 310 voters

Zeroville by Steve EricksonThen We Came to the End by Joshua FerrisThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazOn Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Best Books of 2007
1,113 books — 993 voters
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul BellowPortnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,756 voters