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
143rd out of 975 books — 958 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Masters Of Misery
160th out of 407 books — 99 voters

1984 by George OrwellAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Road by Cormac McCarthyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLord of the Flies by William Golding
Darkest Books of All Time
890th out of 1,302 books — 1,719 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessHoly Bible by AnonymousNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Weirdest Books Ever
915th out of 1,185 books — 1,191 voters

Persuasion by Jane AustenStardust by Neil GaimanDivergent by Veronica RothHoles by Louis SacharRoom by Emma Donoghue
One-Word Titles: Novels (NO Proper Nouns)
901st out of 1,184 books — 51 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLolita by Vladimir NabokovWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Literature essential Books
43rd out of 101 books — 7 voters

The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno SchulzMount Analogue by René DaumalPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoThe Blind Owl by Sadegh HedayatThe Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Read Between My Nocturnal Wanderings
34th out of 40 books — 4 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Thirtieth Year by Ingeborg BachmannDissipatio H.G. by Guido MorselliThe Loser by Thomas BernhardOn the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
Fabula (Adelphi)
21st out of 37 books — 1 voter

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonRosemary’s Baby by Ira LevinThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Chosen by Chaim Potok
Best Books 1967
127th out of 154 books — 64 voters
Rubinrot by Kerstin GierInkheart by Cornelia FunkeMomo by Michael EndeSaphirblau by Kerstin GierThe Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Best German Authors
512th out of 606 books — 705 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueMother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt BrechtThe Black Obelisk by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannGirlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories by Robert Walser
Culture And Language German Works In Translation
29th out of 52 books — 3 voters