And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieRebecca by Daphne du MaurierIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldShutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,314 books — 15,567 voters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerMiddlemarch by George EliotVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Oxford World's Classics
257 books — 77 voters

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy EllmannNight Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
Booker Prize 2019 Longlist
13 books — 44 voters
James by Percival EverettMy Friends by Hisham MatarWild Houses by Colin  BarrettStone Yard Devotional by Charlotte  WoodWandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Booker Prize 2024 Longlist
13 books — 36 voters

The Pretender by Jo HarkinDusk by Robbie ArnottThe Land in Winter by Andrew  MillerMothers and Sons by Adam HaslettBefore We Hit the Ground by Selali Fiamanya
Booker Prize Eligible 2025
177 books — 172 voters
A Good School by Richard Yates
Best of Richard Yates
12 books — 6 voters

The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Best Indian Fiction Books
913 books — 2,421 voters
Wandering Stars by Tommy OrangeWild Houses by Colin  BarrettThis Strange Eventful History by Claire MessudPlayground by Richard PowersJames by Percival Everett
2024 Booker Prize Eligible Longlist
13 books — 3 voters

Blackouts by Justin TorresChoice by Neel MukherjeePraiseworthy by Alexis WrightWild Houses by Colin BarrettThe Spoiled Heart by Sunjeev Sahota
Booker Prize Eligible 2024
194 books — 179 voters
The Collected Poems by Langston HughesSelected Poems by Gwendolyn BrooksNative Guard by Natasha TretheweyCane by Jean ToomerCollected Poems by Countee Cullen
Favorite Poets of Color
600 books — 199 voters

Grant by Ron ChernowFive-Carat Soul by James   McBrideSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Obama's 2017 Favorites
12 books — 2 voters

Dangerous Visions by Harlan EllisonThe Science Fiction Hall of Fame by Ben BovaThe Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus by Brian W. AldissFamous Science-Fiction Stories by Raymond J. HealyThe Science Fiction Hall of Fame by Arthur C. Clarke
Best Science Fiction Anthologies
277 books — 94 voters

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. CoreyStarship Troopers by Robert A. HeinleinA Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor VingeAncillary Justice by Ann LeckieThe Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton
Excellent Space Opera
1,019 books — 3,644 voters
Dune by Frank HerbertThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. HeinleinRingworld by Larry NivenThe Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Best Science Fiction
3,652 books — 6,975 voters

A Humument by Tom  PhillipsCalligrammes by Guillaume ApollinaireConcrete Poetry by Mary Ellen SoltAnthology of Concrete Poetry by Emmett Williamsd.a.levy and the Mimeograph Revolution by Ingrid Swanberg
-Time Is Mosaic-
124 books — 7 voters
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersWhat's Your Idea of a Good Time? Interviews and Letters 1977-... by Bill Berkson and Bernadette...Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
2016 Reading List with Michael
17 books — 3 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLolita by Vladimir NabokovGreat Expectations by Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Odyssey by Homer
Everyman's Library 100 Essentials
103 books — 152 voters
The Victorians by A.N. WilsonThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Victorian Underworld by Kellow ChesneyOscar Wilde by Richard EllmannAn American in Victorian Cambridge by Charles Astor Bristed
Victorian Britain (nonfiction)
143 books — 68 voters

Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto BolañoSnow by Orhan PamukMy Vocabulary Did This to Me by Jack Spicer2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Village Voice 2000s
197 books — 4 voters

Ulysses by James JoycePale Fire by Vladimir NabokovThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonThe Recognitions by William GaddisFinnegans Wake by James Joyce
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 143 voters


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