How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. SeussThe Cat in the Hat by Dr. SeussDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakOn the Road by Jack KerouacOn the Beach by Nevil Shute
Best Books 1957
45th out of 147 books — 39 voters

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 — 584 voters

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienThe Combinations by Louis ArmandCompact by Maurice RocheInvitation to a Beheading by Vladimir NabokovOmensetter's Luck by William H. Gass
The Little Shelf of Peculius
12th out of 44 books — 1 voter
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyI, Robot by Isaac AsimovThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Foundation Trilogy by Isaac AsimovFoundation by Isaac Asimov
Classic Science Fiction - 1950-1959
273rd out of 277 books — 273 voters

Rubinrot by Kerstin GierInkheart by Cornelia FunkeMomo by Michael EndeSaphirblau by Kerstin GierThe Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Best German Authors
473rd out of 606 books — 704 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueSteppenwolf by Hermann HessePerfume by Patrick Süskind
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
710th out of 973 books — 956 voters