The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraInferno by Dante AlighieriThe Iliad by HomerThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Penguin Classics
595 books — 307 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de SadeThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraNotes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Transgressive Fiction
868 books — 967 voters
To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Satyricon by PetroniusMedea by SenecaThe Periodic Table by Primo LeviMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Writers who committed suicide
455 books — 285 voters

The Inferno by Dante AlighieriThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Odyssey by HomerAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Iliad by Homer
Best School Assigned Books
766 books — 2,063 voters
The Republic by PlatoThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo LeviThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Inspiring Books
4,682 books — 3,354 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. LovecraftA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Best Weird Fiction Books
1,200 books — 1,092 voters
Howards End by E.M. ForsterMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesThe Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Downton Abbey-esque Books
601 books — 999 voters

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Best Books Under 200 Pages
953 books — 424 voters
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred DöblinThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréGoodbye to Berlin by Christopher IsherwoodEffi Briest by Theodor FontaneEvery Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
Berlin
316 books — 187 voters

Doctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensEthan Frome by Edith WhartonIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHunger by Knut Hamsun
Ice and Snow
687 books — 193 voters
I promessi sposi by Alessandro ManzoniUomini e no by Elio VittoriniLa vita agra by Luciano BianciardiDemetrio Pianelli by Emilio De MarchiUn amore by Dino Buzzati
Romanzi ambientati a Milano
159 books — 45 voters

L'Assommoir by Émile ZolaUnder the Volcano by Malcolm LowryThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldPost Office by Charles BukowskiThe Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Drunken Masters
281 books — 376 voters

Pnin by Vladimir NabokovHerzog by Saul BellowThe Rainbow by D.H. LawrenceNicholas Nickleby by Charles DickensDisgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Teachers Featured
283 books — 147 voters
Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfMedea by EuripidesAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Female Character
1,025 books — 449 voters

Oedipus Rex by SophoclesThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Aeneid by Virgil
Suicide
708 books — 495 voters
Ficciones by Jorge Luis BorgesIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoWhite Noise by Don DeLilloPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovLabyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 172 voters

Confessions by Augustine of HippoConfessions by Jean-Jacques RousseauThe Periodic Table by Primo LeviMemoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de BeauvoirWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,098 books — 1,947 voters

The Odyssey by HomerThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best for Book Clubs
14,551 books — 18,403 voters
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickIn the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel ProustThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaDissipatio H.G. by Guido MorselliAnd Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
Best Book Titles
11,388 books — 7,819 voters

Pinocchio by Carlo CollodiHeart of a Dog by Mikhail BulgakovThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonAnimal Farm by George OrwellWatership Down by Richard  Adams
Through Another's Eyes: Xenofiction
432 books — 232 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyMedea by EuripidesThe Stranger by Albert CamusDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Rooting for the Bad Guy
683 books — 1,467 voters

The Iliad by HomerRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John FowlesThe Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Favorite Fictional Couples in Books
693 books — 431 voters
Notes from Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sonemic / Rate Your Music: Favorite Books
1,054 books — 182 voters


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