The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Disappointing Books
2,774 books — 4,666 voters
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,265 books — 8,161 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,877 books — 49,837 voters
Against Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeVenus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
241 books — 204 voters

Perfume by Patrick SüskindThe Red and the Black by Stendhal
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,088 books — 623 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1001 Books I Have Already Read
523 books — 459 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
380 books — 284 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerRobinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Best British and Irish Literature
1,174 books — 1,115 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Red and the Black by StendhalBonjour tristesse by Françoise SaganAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Best French Literature
884 books — 1,577 voters