The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Long Good-bye by Raymond ChandlerThe Grifters by Jim ThompsonThe Getaway by Jim Thompson
Best Hardboiled Crime Novels
110 books — 76 voters
Redeployment by Phil KlayStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrSweetland by Michael CrummeyOrfeo by Richard Powers
Best Books of 2014
3,571 books — 6,311 voters

All Involved by Ryan GattisHousebreaking by Dan PopeLiars, Inc. by Paula StokesThe Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
Best Books of 2015
3,107 books — 5,120 voters
The Neon Wilderness by Nelson AlgrenThe Last Catholic in America by John R. PowersDo Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? by John R. PowersHerzog by Saul Bellow
Set in Chicago: Fiction
131 books — 64 voters

Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian
Books for Genocide Project
221 books — 72 voters
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.East of Eden by John SteinbeckGone Girl by Gillian FlynnA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Best Antiheroes
701 books — 585 voters

Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsA Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson AlgrenInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceV. by Thomas PynchonGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
100 Best American Authors
751 books — 615 voters

Birdsong by Sebastian FaulksCompany K by William March
World War One Literature
224 books — 357 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonV. by Thomas PynchonThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonAgainst the Day by Thomas PynchonSlow Learner by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
10 books — 262 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,241 books — 3,909 voters

The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterThe Stand by Stephen  King
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,785 voters
Mr. Irrelevant by Jerry MarshallInequality in an Age of Decline by Paul BlumbergDiary by Chuck Palahniuk
Worst Titles Ever
234 books — 36 voters

The Third Man by Graham Greene
20 Novellas You Should Read
87 books — 51 voters
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'NeillThe Hours by Michael CunninghamA Home at the End of the World by Michael CunninghamThe Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Best Gay Fiction
2,663 books — 3,866 voters

The Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,986 voters
The Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsGoodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,181 books — 1,507 voters

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterRevolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,356 books — 1,779 voters
Watership Down by Richard  AdamsThe Stand by Stephen  KingSophie’s Choice by William StyronRagtime by E.L. DoctorowTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,946 books — 1,880 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas  Harris
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,434 voters
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganThe Orphan Master's Son by Adam  JohnsonDefending Jacob by William LandayThe Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,686 books — 14,172 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Hours by Michael CunninghamA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,677 voters
Empire Falls by Richard RussoWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithMystic River by Dennis LehaneThe Known World by Edward P. Jones
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,376 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,091 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithThe Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,008 books — 1,448 voters


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