The Beggar Maid by Alice MunroHumboldt's Gift by Saul BellowThe Elementary Particles by Michel HouellebecqThe Bee Sting by Paul MurrayLiliana's Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza
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388 books — 108 voters
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Your Top 5 Reads in 2024
472 books — 133 voters

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Your Top 5 Reads in 2023
819 books — 316 voters
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. CoetzeeThe Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanBetrayal by Harold PinterBreathing Lessons by Anne TylerThe Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Your Top 5 Reads in 2022
580 books — 198 voters

History of Violence by Édouard LouisCirce by Madeline Millerآخر الشهود by Svetlana AlexievichKlara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroFaithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück
Your Top 5 Reads in 2021
603 books — 264 voters
Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieTransit by Rachel CuskMap by Wisława SzymborskaA Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter HandkeThe White Book by Han Kang
Your Top 5 Reads in 2020
567 books — 213 voters

The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
top 5 of 2011
59 books — 17 voters
Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettA Pale View of Hills by Kazuo IshiguroOutline by Rachel CuskDeath in Venice by Thomas MannOpen Secrets by Alice Munro
Your Top 5 Reads in 2019
667 books — 260 voters

On Cats by Doris Lessing
Great Cat Books
1,580 books — 948 voters
Human Acts by Han KangLives of Girls and Women by Alice MunroBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesSurfacing by Margaret AtwoodMudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates
Your Top 5 Reads in 2018
639 books — 262 voters

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodAn Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo IshiguroNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodAtonement by Ian McEwan
Man Booker Shortlist
272 books — 81 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodSurfacing by Margaret AtwoodAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodSelected Poems 1 by Margaret Atwood
Best of Margaret Atwood
105 books — 252 voters

A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol OatesThe Lost Landscape by Joyce Carol OatesMudwoman by Joyce Carol OatesLovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol OatesWe Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
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117 books — 84 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroAn Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo IshiguroA Pale View of Hills by Kazuo IshiguroNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroWhen We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best of Kazuo Ishiguro
20 books — 23 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaAn Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo IshiguroThe Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldSix Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi PirandelloLife & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
Your Top 5 Reads in 2017
749 books — 360 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald1984 by George Orwell
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
102 books — 483 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Seagull by Anton ChekhovThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyUncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,281 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerWhite Noise by Don DeLillo
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241 books — 205 voters
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de LaclosCandide by Voltaire
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,009 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
American Literature
519 books — 175 voters
Beloved by Toni MorrisonBlindness by José SaramagoThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Entertainment Weekly New Classics
104 books — 258 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLolita by Vladimir NabokovPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Globe & Mail 50 Greatest Books
58 books — 51 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLolita by Vladimir NabokovNicholas Nickleby by Charles DickensGhosts by Henrik IbsenDance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
Your Top 5 Reads in 2015
1,518 books — 874 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
590 books — 2,044 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoMy Name Is Red by Orhan PamukAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Best Literary Mysteries
2,570 books — 4,649 voters

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Best of Turkish Literature
499 books — 827 voters


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