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
207th out of 632 books — 906 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Trial by Franz KafkaSteppenwolf by Hermann HessePerfume by Patrick Süskind
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
321st out of 988 books — 967 voters

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftCandide by VoltaireRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLes Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Best Books of the 18th Century
202nd out of 376 books — 1,011 voters
The Opium of the Intellectuals by Raymond AronThe Captive Mind by Czesław MiłoszMephisto by Klaus MannThy Hand, Great Anarch! India, 1921-1952 by Nirad C. ChaudhuriMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Cultural Amnesia: A Reading List
30th out of 116 books — 7 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Collection of Essays by George OrwellThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusArguably by Christopher Hitchens
Best/Favorite Books of Essays
428th out of 556 books — 249 voters
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von ArnimThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonHadji Murád by Leo TolstoyThe Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsJeeves in the Offing by P.G. Wodehouse
Common Reader Catalog May 2003 Part I
80th out of 100 books — 16 voters

Le Spleen de Paris - Les Paradis Artificiels by Charles BaudelaireThe Human Province by Elias CanettiPrécis de décomposition by Emil M. CioranRécits posthumes et fragments by Franz KafkaDits et contredits by Karl Kraus
Bibliothèque Idéale - Fragments
7th out of 10 books — 1 voter
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William BlakeThe Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. EliotThe Hawk in the Rain by Ted HughesOn Love and Barley by Matsuo BashōMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
100 Books to Read before The Collapse
63rd out of 101 books — 2 voters

Maxims and Reflections by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMake Hay While the Sun Shines by Shirley HughesThe Complete Essays by Michel de MontaigneEssays and Poems by Ralph Waldo EmersonFragments by Heraclitus
Aphorisms and Effays
12th out of 27 books — 3 voters

Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiTechnological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëGames People Play by Eric Berne
Expressive Egg's 100 Books to Read Before the End
77th out of 102 books — 27 voters
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiDialectic of Enlightenment by Max HorkheimerThe Essential Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke AkutagawaSaving the Appearances by Owen Barfield
Expressive Egg’s 100 Books to Read Before The End
50th out of 101 books — 3 voters

Bluets by Maggie NelsonAutobiography of Red by Anne CarsonMan Struggling With Umbrella by P.J. MacNamaraDept. of Speculation by Jenny OffillI'jaam by Sinan Antoon
Books Made of Fragments
8th out of 22 books — 7 voters
Sharp Objects by Gillian FlynnThe Secret History by Donna TarttIn the Dream House by Carmen Maria MachadoFunny Story by Emily HenryEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
What Women Born in the 2000s Have Read in 2024
29th out of 148 books — 7 voters