The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki MurakamiCoin Locker Babies by Ryū Murakami
Best Japanese Books
778 books — 3,252 voters
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Best Haruki Murakami Books
28 books — 845 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Best Books Ever
77,947 books — 290,761 voters

The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de SadeJohnny Got His Gun by Dalton TrumboHaunted by Chuck PalahniukLolita by Vladimir NabokovBeloved by Toni Morrison
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,278 books — 11,614 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Road by Cormac McCarthyMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,216 books — 28,372 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Gothic Books You Should Read (fiction)
240 books — 177 voters
The Complete Marquis de Sade by Marquis de SadeBeauty's Punishment by A.N. RoquelaureDelta of Venus by Anaïs NinTropic of Cancer by Henry MillerThe Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure
Instead of 50 Shades of Grey
311 books — 314 voters

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanBrokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Best Short Stories of All Time
613 books — 385 voters
The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger
Best Books You've Never Heard Of
1,267 books — 790 voters