Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Russian Literature
24th out of 517 books — 2,291 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
114th out of 1,731 books — 6,899 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Stranger by Albert Camus
World's Greatest Novellas
31st out of 721 books — 1,453 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Most influential books under 100 pages
43rd out of 253 books — 931 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
130th out of 1,187 books — 2,811 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
28th out of 280 books — 387 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
28th out of 196 books — 502 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
39th out of 441 books — 259 voters

The Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose BierceBartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Best Short Stories of All Time
28th out of 611 books — 384 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crash Course in Slavic Literature
39th out of 444 books — 233 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboNight by Elie Wiesel
Most Depressing Book of All Time
201st out of 1,228 books — 3,938 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian Social History
16th out of 291 books — 86 voters

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Gift of the Magi by O. HenryThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Single Short Story
51st out of 773 books — 301 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareDead Souls by Nikolai GogolThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaEugene Onegin by Alexander PushkinA Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Dostoevskiana
8th out of 70 books — 38 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Queen of Spades by Alexander PushkinThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyEugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Books set in St Petersburg
6th out of 35 books — 30 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Must Read Classics
572nd out of 1,868 books — 4,693 voters

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Long Winter by Laura Ingalls WilderWhite Fang by Jack London
Ice and Snow
45th out of 691 books — 195 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
8674th out of 77,611 books — 289,661 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
6529th out of 32,282 books — 123,171 voters
No Longer Human by Osamu DazaiCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyRashomon by Ryūnosuke AkutagawaThe Poems of Nakahara Chuya by Chūya NakaharaThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
bungou stray dogs
10th out of 46 books — 38 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Favourite "homework" books
49th out of 160 books — 95 voters
A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Winter Reads
2576th out of 10,122 books — 2,761 voters

The Tempest by William ShakespeareThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Odyssey by Homer
The Blank
119th out of 2,105 books — 142 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTrainspotting by Irvine WelshInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Transgressive Fiction
413th out of 894 books — 972 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Sonemic / Rate Your Music: Favorite Books
151st out of 1,059 books — 195 voters
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyTatiana and Alexander by Paullina SimonsAnastasia by Carolyn Meyer
Books Set in Russia
11th out of 178 books — 60 voters

Tenth of December by George SaundersThis Is How You Lose Her by Junot DíazInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriNine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James Joyce
Badass Short Story Collections (Or So I Hear)
122nd out of 464 books — 260 voters
Dead Souls by Nikolai GogolThe Overcoat by Nikolai GogolDiary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai GogolUncle Vanya by Anton ChekhovTaras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol
Ukrainian non-Ukrainian literature
2nd out of 171 books — 5 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Quick Reads
162nd out of 1,074 books — 715 voters

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