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
63rd out of 988 books — 965 voters
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorSatantango by László Krasznahorkai
Best New Directions Books
8th out of 262 books — 180 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
278th out of 3,182 books — 3,684 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
567th out of 1,338 books — 5,929 voters

The Secret History by Donna TarttSmall Gods by Terry PratchettThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Pelican Brief by John GrishamDoomsday Book by Connie Willis
Best Books of 1992
47th out of 509 books — 202 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakNight by Elie WieselSchindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
World War II/Holocaust Fiction & Non-fiction
182nd out of 1,013 books — 820 voters

Stoner by John  WilliamsBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy2666 by Roberto BolañoButcher's Crossing by John  WilliamsMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Hip Opinions
120th out of 313 books — 116 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
19940th out of 78,610 books — 292,905 voters

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de AssisDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraDemian / Siddhartha by Hermann HesseMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertTender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
Recommended by Susan Sontag
14th out of 93 books — 14 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.
95th out of 254 books — 250 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
569th out of 1,229 books — 3,947 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodRebecca by Daphne du MaurierBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
In Which These Are the 100 Greatest Novels
88th out of 101 books — 61 voters
Bluets by Maggie NelsonReady Player One by Ernest ClineWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonAsk the Dust by John FanteRadiant Days by Michael A. FitzGerald
Underdog Literature: 2011
18th out of 140 books — 29 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Trial by Franz KafkaIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustThe Chaneysville Incident by David  Bradley
100 greatest novels
55th out of 101 books — 2 voters
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian BarryBreaking the Chain by Stacie  WebbThe Eighth Day by Thornton WilderThe Story of a Life by Konstantin PaustovskyBefore The Big Bang by Laura Mersini-Houghton
Best Books Across Genres: A Lifetime Reading List
70th out of 73 books — 2 voters

The House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosMy Ántonia by Willa CatherThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieUprising by Margaret Peterson HaddixThe Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Task 5 #ReadHarder 2025
17th out of 33 books — 2 voters
The Help by Kathryn StockettThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Power by Naomi AldermanThe Martian by Andy Weir
ATY 2020 - Two-Word Titles Starting with "The"
487th out of 693 books — 90 voters

East West Street by Philippe SandsThe Paris Diaries by Ernst JüngerTales of a Shaman's Apprentice by Mark J. PlotkinBarbarian Days by William FinneganSouth of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
My top 40 books
8th out of 36 books — 1 voter
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Complete Poems by Emily DickinsonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf
70th out of 72 books — 6 voters

Goodbye, Columbus by Philip RothPortnoy’s Complaint by Philip RothThe Human Stain by Philip RothThe Plot Against America by Philip RothThe Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Papa Grosserode
19th out of 100 books — 1 voter
Jakob von Gunten by Robert WalserUn hombre que duerme by Georges PerecLa casa de los siete tejados by Nathaniel HawthorneLa pata de mono by W.W. JacobsDie Leute von Seldwyla by Gottfried Keller
Eterna Cadencia Los imprescindibles Quinta Parte
47th out of 200 books — 3 voters

The Tartar Steppe by Dino BuzzatiNo Longer Human by Osamu DazaiThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughTo Live by Yu HuaThe Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
/lit/ guide to depressing literature
7th out of 46 books — 2 voters

El manifiesto comunista by Karl MarxIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingEl queso y los gusanos by Carlo Ginzburg
Los demasiados libros
133rd out of 200 books — 5 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel SparkMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Books Mentioned in Reading Lolita in Tehran
43rd out of 96 books — 7 voters

¡Vivir! by Yu HuaEl secreto by Donna TarttInforme sobre la Tierra by Douglas AdamsEl paciente ingles by Michael OndaatjeLa prueba by César Aira
Uno nueve nueve dos
31st out of 90 books — 2 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienCarrie by Stephen  KingThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Complete 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
966th out of 990 books — 18 voters

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiExtinction by Thomas BernhardJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineSelected Writings by Antonin ArtaudHow It Is by Samuel Beckett
guide to doom lit
27th out of 62 books — 1 voter

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