The Last Sunset by March Lions
I Picked It Up Because of the Title
7,927 books — 2,079 voters
The Fever by Megan AbbottL.A. Woman by Eve Babitz
Dark Academia
365 books — 1,498 voters

The Memory Police by Yōko OgawaLe Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
Proustian Echoes
19 books — 10 voters

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithThe Drowning Pool by Ross MacdonaldThe Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan PoeThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
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2,557 books — 4,620 voters

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66 books — 114 voters
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovStory of the Eye by Georges Bataille
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264 books — 213 voters

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Best Books of 2010
1,574 books — 2,472 voters
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Philip K. Dick Award Winners
49 books — 36 voters

Falling to Earth by Kate SouthwoodDeath's Dark Abyss by Massimo CarlottoThe Rage by Gene Kerrigan
Europa Edition Books
126 books — 140 voters
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Best Memoirs/Autobiography/Travel
1,319 books — 943 voters

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter HandkePatterns of Childhood by Christa WolfDoctor Faustus by Thomas MannThe Threepenny Opera by Bertolt BrechtThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
German Classics
227 books — 151 voters

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. HoffmannBlitzcat by Robert WestallMrs. Chippy's Last Expedition by Caroline AlexanderWhy Cats Paint by Heather Busch
Awesome Cat Books
401 books — 54 voters

Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 voters
The Driver's Seat by Muriel SparkPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Great Short Short Books
580 books — 514 voters

Arcanum 17 by André Breton
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126 books — 104 voters
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James HoggRiddley Walker by Russell HobanStory of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Cult Classics
1,568 books — 2,120 voters


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