Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins
Best Persephone Books
150 books — 166 voters
Schindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyMaus I by Art SpiegelmanMaus II by Art SpiegelmanSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo LeviSophie’s Choice by William Styron
Well-Written Holocaust Books
893 books — 2,887 voters

View with a Grain of Sand by Wisława SzymborskaThe Piano Teacher by Elfriede JelinekSämtliche Gedichte by Ingeborg BachmannThe Land of Green Plums by Herta MüllerEichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Europe Minus Men and English
854 books — 224 voters
Great Expectations by Charles DickensMiddlemarch by George EliotLord of the Flies by William GoldingSwann's Way by Marcel ProustA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Penguin Drop Caps
26 books — 70 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Stranger by Albert CamusIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,784 voters
Matilda by Roald DahlPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieDracula by Bram StokerOthello by William ShakespeareLet the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Best Villains
911 books — 285 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy ParkerA Doll's House by Henrik IbsenBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
772 books — 1,399 voters
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmThe Sleepwalkers by Hermann BrochDarkness Spoken by Ingeborg BachmannThe Waste Books by Georg Christoph LichtenbergGroup Portrait with Lady by Heinrich Böll
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
976 books — 959 voters

The Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckWaiting by Ha JinImperial Woman by Pearl S. BuckWhen We Were Orphans by Kazuo IshiguroRed Sorghum by Mo Yan
Best Novels That Take Place in China
414 books — 1,097 voters
Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius
Best Covers of 2012
284 books — 288 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëDracula by Bram StokerGreat Expectations by Charles DickensAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,876 voters
Pastoralia by George SaundersBilly Budd and Other Stories by Herman MelvilleIn Persuasion Nation by George SaundersLike You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim ShepardYoung Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Collections of Short Stories
2,897 books — 2,041 voters

The Food Pharmacy by Jean Carper
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,838 books — 3,601 voters
Selected Writings by Guillaume ApollinaireHow German Is It by Walter AbishCollected Poems by Kenneth PatchenOne Hundred Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth RexrothAntipoems by Nicanor Parra
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMiddlemarch by George EliotMrs Dalloway by Virginia WoolfBreak It Down by Lydia DavisTalk Poetry by Mairead Byrne
Favourite female writers
400 books — 30 voters

Stoner by John  WilliamsA Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter HandkeThe Waste Books by Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe Slaves of Solitude by Patrick HamiltonNovels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon
New York Review Books - Classics
532 books — 892 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensMiddlemarch by George EliotTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,997 voters
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
White as the Driven Snow
1,762 books — 256 voters

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmMax und Moritz. Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen by Wilhelm BuschDer Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann
Best German Children Literature
234 books — 202 voters
Be My Knife by David Grossman
Best Book Cover Art
12,376 books — 7,093 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroWhite Noise by Don DeLilloContinental Drift by Russell Banks
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,260 books — 2,432 voters
Like You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard
What To Read Next
20,452 books — 24,284 voters