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Memphis Movie by Corey Mesler
Best Books of 2015
3,106 books — 5,120 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceDubliners by James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceJames Joyce by Richard EllmannBloomsday by David B. Lentz
James Joyce Reading List
52 books — 38 voters

Diddy-Wah-Diddy by Corey Mesler
Best Books You've Never Heard Of
1,267 books — 791 voters
Stella! Mother of Modern Acting by Sheana Ochoa
The "Can't Wait" Books of 2014
1,967 books — 5,292 voters

Room by Emma DonoghueDiddy-Wah-Diddy by Corey MeslerTraveling Sprinkler by Nicholson BakerThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaMetaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart
Your Top 5 Reads in 2013
1,301 books — 1,094 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerRoom by Emma DonoghueJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best for Book Clubs
14,552 books — 18,405 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraKing Lear by William Shakespeare
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 364 voters
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4.5 and above and With At Least 100 Ratings
1,945 books — 2,690 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLolita by Vladimir NabokovSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books Ever
76,082 books — 282,682 voters
Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Sto... by Kelly Link
Best Fall Anthology 2011
12 books — 23 voters

Carrier of the Mark by Leigh FallonShatter Me by Tahereh MafiFury by Elizabeth MilesWither by Lauren DeStefanoTorment by Lauren Kate
Best Cover Fall/Winter 2011
406 books — 1,591 voters
Jubilee Hitchhiker by William Hjortsberg
Best Books of 2012
3,523 books — 9,203 voters

Jubilee Hitchhiker by William HjortsbergGardner Remembers by Corey MeslerI'll Give You Something to Cry About by Corey MeslerSchmidt Delivered by Louis Begley
2012--The intended Reading List
69 books — 26 voters
The Heart is Open by Corey MeslerBefore the Great Troubling by Corey MeslerPity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form by Matthea HarveyThe Ghost Soldiers by James TateReturn to the City of White Donkeys by James Tate
Best recent poetry book
68 books — 112 voters

I'll Give You Something to Cry About by Corey MeslerGardner Remembers by Corey MeslerNotes Toward The Story and Other Stories by Corey MeslerBefore the Great Troubling by Corey Mesler
MUST READS OF 2011 & 2012!
318 books — 248 voters
Following Richard Brautigan by Corey Mesler
These books are so good they made my top 10 best books of 2011 list
195 books — 256 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,043 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerUlysses by James JoyceThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SterneTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Style as Text
251 books — 129 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovUlysses by James JoyceThe Sot-Weed Factor by John BarthDarconville's Cat by Alexander TherouxThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 989 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Best Urban Fantasy
4,404 books — 12,551 voters

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Books You Want Everyone to Know About
8,458 books — 2,344 voters
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Talking 'Bout My Generation...
581 books — 444 voters

The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin BrockmeierThe Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward GoreyThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerMadeleine Is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien BynumTalk by Corey Mesler
Best Book Cover Art
12,382 books — 7,091 voters