Editors' Top Picks
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan KunderaImmortality by Milan KunderaThe Joke by Milan KunderaLaughable Loves by Milan Kundera
Best Fiction of Milan Kundera
2nd out of 12 books — 121 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsWatership Down by Richard AdamsThe Stand by Stephen KingThe Shining by Stephen KingThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
101st out of 1,956 books — 1,885 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
889th out of 7,889 books — 49,803 voters
The Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Philosophical Literature
128th out of 1,189 books — 2,813 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Books Ever
4968th out of 77,635 books — 289,809 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Greatest Eastern European Classics
36th out of 441 books — 259 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
488th out of 1,318 books — 5,865 voters
Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
191st out of 2,906 books — 2,050 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
141st out of 1,084 books — 623 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
4488th out of 32,301 books — 123,220 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Guardian's 100 greatest novels of all time
74th out of 106 books — 115 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
"Love" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read" List
76th out of 146 books — 134 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingThe World According to Garp by John IrvingEye of the Needle by Ken FollettNight Shift by Stephen KingA Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Books 1978
15th out of 231 books — 60 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education
26th out of 98 books — 70 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusEichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah ArendtThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
TLS The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the Second World War
30th out of 101 books — 88 voters
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyRooftops of Tehran by Mahbod SerajiStill Alice by Lisa Genova
2015-16 NBO Book Club List
9th out of 26 books — 15 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav HašekWar with the Newts by Karel ČapekI Served the King of England by Bohumil HrabalThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Czech Books
21st out of 149 books — 117 voters
Ruby Red by Kerstin GierThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónLes Misérables by Victor HugoSaphirblau by Kerstin GierThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Foreign Books Translated To English
91st out of 819 books — 217 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Most Poetic Book Titles
288th out of 2,029 books — 898 voters
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellEmpire of Illusion by Chris HedgesDays of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris HedgesThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Chris Hedges: Written, Recommended, Referenced or Read
13th out of 124 books — 35 voters

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Unconventional, Seductive, Intelligent and Dizzyingly Surreal
174th out of 744 books — 388 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanThe Notebook by Nicholas SparksThe Jungle Book by Rudyard KiplingThe Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Books with 'Book' in the Title
36th out of 1,928 books — 132 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksChitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian FlemingThe Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Sounds
18th out of 668 books — 51 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCloud Atlas by David MitchellPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Oulipo,etc.
59th out of 254 books — 250 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Favorites from 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die
269th out of 506 books — 1,057 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsSophie's Choice by William StyronThe Dead Zone by Stephen KingThe Executioner's Song by Norman MailerKindred by Octavia E. Butler
Best Books 1979
19th out of 179 books — 70 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Combinations by Louis ArmandThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Golem by Gustav Meyrink
Best Books Set in Prague
22nd out of 139 books — 131 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Metafiction
108th out of 443 books — 579 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithSheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K. Ritz
Best Book Titles
4911th out of 11,993 books — 8,389 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerUlysses by James JoyceIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Style as Text
72nd out of 251 books — 131 voters

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