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Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara ComynsThe Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora CarringtonEvent Factory by Renee GladmanCreature by Amina CainSuite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger
Dorothy, A Publishing Project
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelThe Bone Clocks by David MitchellThe Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganThe Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
2015 Tournament of Books Long List
61st out of 72 books — 157 voters

A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaThe Buried Giant by Kazuo IshiguroThe Book of Strange New Things by Michel FaberOur Souls at Night by Kent HarufLila by Marilynne Robinson
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2015
90th out of 143 books — 357 voters
A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaFishnet by Kirstin InnesOur Souls at Night by Kent HarufThe Blue Horse by Philip MillerOur Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
Guardian Not the Booker prize longlist 2015
36th out of 70 books — 27 voters

Meaty by Samantha IrbyThe Buddhist by Dodie BellamyWomen by Chloé CaldwellNotice by Heather LewisKing Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes
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22nd out of 64 books — 6 voters
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26th out of 122 books — 24 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrWolf Hall by Hilary MantelAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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399th out of 653 books — 311 voters
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonPale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
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75th out of 98 books — 1 voter

Euphoria by Lily KingCirce by Madeline MillerThe Great Believers by Rebecca MakkaiThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellThe Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
2023 Tournament of Favorites Longlist Part One
109th out of 109 books — 12 voters
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Wolves in the Walls by Neil GaimanThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Door in the Wall by Marguerite de AngeliRedwall by Brian Jacques
The Wall
113th out of 342 books — 28 voters

Normal People by Sally RooneyThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesIn the Distance by Hernan DiazAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
LitHub's Best Novels of the Decade (2010s)
66th out of 187 books — 16 voters
Neverwhere by Neil GaimanSuperfudge by Judy BlumeGreenwitch by Susan CooperStargirl by Jerry SpinelliEventown by Corey Ann Haydu
Two Words Into One
147th out of 383 books — 24 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsOn Beauty by Zadie SmithThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
All The Books on ‘All The Books!’
95th out of 163 books — 3 voters
The Argonauts by Maggie NelsonDon’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia RankineMy Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth StroutProject X by Jim ShepardMemories of My Father Watching TV by Curtis White
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32nd out of 100 books — 2 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Year of Reading Women #readwomen2014
318th out of 334 books — 77 voters
The Big Year by Mark ObmascikSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonJonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard BachWesley the Owl by Stacey O'BrienH is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
For the Love of Birds
230th out of 238 books — 71 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrEverything I Never Told You by Celeste NgThe Bone Clocks by David MitchellDept. of Speculation by Jenny OffillThe Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 - Fiction
45th out of 46 books — 42 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Bone Clocks by David MitchellCan't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz ChastFourth of July Creek by Smith HendersonA Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre
New York Times Best 100 Books of 2014
10th out of 28 books — 11 voters

Alice in Wonderland by Jane CarruthThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldBluets by Maggie NelsonTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A College Curriculum on Your Bookshelf (Flavorwire, Temple)
15th out of 49 books — 4 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollBluets by Maggie NelsonJazz by Toni MorrisonThe Trial by Franz Kafka
50 Books for 50 Classes
30th out of 50 books — 7 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary MantelThe Blazing World by Siri HustvedtThe Bone Clocks by David MitchellThe Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
NYTimes 2014 List
48th out of 50 books — 3 voters
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBrideAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary MantelDept. of Speculation by Jenny OffillFamily Life by Akhil Sharma
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2014 (fiction and nonfiction)
49th out of 100 books — 3 voters


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