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Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood
Most Anticipated Book Releases 2023
307 books — 296 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
743 books — 1,680 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
765 books — 1,933 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
1,325 books — 719 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
784 books — 1,401 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 — 44 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
62 books — 2,002 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

Fugitive Pieces by Anne MichaelsThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFifth Business by Robertson Davies
Great Canadian Books of the [20th] Century I (fiction and nonfiction)
168 books — 62 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeFugitive Pieces by Anne MichaelsThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonaldFault Lines by Nancy Huston
Canadian Fiction
1,042 books — 605 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
1,489 books — 2,227 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 — 390 voters