Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Postmodern Genius
459th out of 519 books — 582 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Real Mystical Realism Literature
38th out of 45 books — 6 voters
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer102 Minutes by Jim  DwyerThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightThe Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFedeThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
9/11 Related
163rd out of 255 books — 229 voters

Assumed Identity by Scott McElhaneyExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerA Fall of Marigolds by Susan MeissnerDaylight by Grace A. JohnsonFalling Man by Don DeLillo
9/11 Fiction
23rd out of 27 books — 21 voters
One Tough Cookie by Delise TorresMigrations by J.L. TorresDaughters of the Stone by Dahlma Llanos-FigueroaLa casa de la laguna by Rosario FerréDown These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Boricua/Puerto Rican Literature
29th out of 59 books — 23 voters

When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda SantiagoOne Tough Cookie by Delise TorresConquistadora by Esmeralda SantiagoRita Moreno by Rita MorenoMigrations by J.L. Torres
Puerto Rican Authors
79th out of 176 books — 64 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Best Postcolonial Literature (fiction and nonfiction)
83rd out of 186 books — 141 voters