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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasDune by Frank Patrick Herbert
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,876 books — 7,000 voters
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Best Unappreciated Books
4,391 books — 2,298 voters

1984 by George Orwell
Best Philosophical Literature
1,208 books — 2,847 voters
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Best Graphic Novels
3,458 books — 6,779 voters

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Indie Literature, General Fiction
112 books — 216 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleGood Omens by Terry PratchettThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Best Humor Writing
864 books — 996 voters

Onitsha by J.M.G. Le Clézio
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,870 books — 1,733 voters
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
384 books — 301 voters

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Short Stories
1,768 books — 1,079 voters
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,703 books — 13,241 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Medicine and Literature
1,986 books — 2,228 voters
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Best American History Books
2,243 books — 2,852 voters

The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
Favorite Travel Books
2,051 books — 3,975 voters
Pastoralia by George SaundersFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Collections of Short Stories
2,921 books — 2,068 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Best Book Titles
12,186 books — 8,611 voters
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
Books on Books: Bookmaking, Biblioclasm, Bibliophilia
425 books — 362 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 146 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasGreat Expectations by Charles DickensMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,752 books — 6,905 voters

1984 by George OrwellAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisOn the Road by Jack KerouacMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,122 books — 1,828 voters
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Drunken Masters
285 books — 378 voters

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)
561 books — 545 voters
The Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacJunky by William S. BurroughsThe Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Beat Lit
236 books — 182 voters

Dune by Frank Patrick HerbertThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,598 books — 124,065 voters