Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood
Most Anticipated Book Releases 2023
298 books — 270 voters
One Bloody Thing After Another by Joey ComeauLullaby by Chuck PalahniukBreakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
Best Dark Humor
729 books — 1,635 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieAnil's Ghost by Michael OndaatjeInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Best South Asian Fiction
750 books — 1,914 voters
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence DurrellOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezMy Name Is Red by Orhan PamukShalimar the Clown by Salman RushdieHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Around the World in 100 Books
1,324 books — 707 voters

Yes Means Yes! by Jaclyn FriedmanThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirMiddlemarch by George EliotI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
782 books — 1,400 voters
Possession by A.S. ByattEros the Bittersweet by Anne CarsonThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyShalimar the Clown by Salman RushdieThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
I Would If I Could
110 books — 43 voters

The English Patient by Michael OndaatjePossession by A.S. ByattThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Booker Prize Winners
64 books — 1,996 voters
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyFaust, and the Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Pompous Books to Read in Public
270 books — 157 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Collector by John FowlesA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Smug Bastards!
65 books — 76 voters
The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
Best Books You've Never Heard Of
1,267 books — 790 voters

The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeCatch-22 by Joseph HellerFugitive Pieces by Anne  MichaelsStones from the River by Ursula HegiThe Tin Drum by Günter Grass
World War II Fiction
1,411 books — 2,040 voters
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate BernheimerThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela CarterMagical Thinking by Augusten BurroughsInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriBloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
Good short fiction
664 books — 391 voters