Stoner by John  WilliamsChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
New York Review Books - Classics
165th out of 531 books — 890 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
741st out of 1,996 books — 893 voters

Wild Swans by Jung ChangThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Best Books About China
599th out of 747 books — 587 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
354th out of 519 books — 582 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Favorite Translated Literature
808th out of 1,034 books — 499 voters
My Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteA Fatal Inversion by Barbara VineThe Millstone by Margaret DrabbleIncidental Inventions by Elena FerranteThe Anatomy of Disgust by William Ian Miller
M.Y. recommends 2
11th out of 28 books — 1 voter

The Art of War by Sun TzuTao Te Ching by Lao TzuDream of the Red Chamber by Cao XueqinWild Swans by Jung ChangMonkey by Wu Cheng'en
Chinese Literature
282nd out of 322 books — 151 voters
Midnight in Peking by Paul   FrenchChinese Shadows by Simon LeysRickshaw Boy by Lao SheBraised Pork by An YuThe Dragon's Tail by Adam Williams
Books set in BEIJING
22nd out of 48 books — 14 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónPOENA DAMNI by Dimitris LyacosBlindness by José SaramagoThe Last Wish by Andrzej SapkowskiThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Translated Books Project
425th out of 585 books — 75 voters
James by Percival EverettWild Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysJulia by Sandra NewmanBlue Sisters by Coco MellorsThe Friend by Sigrid Nunez
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53rd out of 100 books — 1 voter

Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Invisibles, Volume 1 by Grant MorrisonThe Invisible Man by H.G. WellsUnderstanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Invisibilly
226th out of 247 books — 11 voters
Minor Detail by Adania ShibliVivian by Christina HesselholdtThe Invisibility Cloak by Ge FeiNotes of a Crocodile by Qiu MiaojinThe Door by Magda Szabó
CarpetRide
3rd out of 53 books — 1 voter