The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannBuddenbrooks by Thomas MannJoseph and His Brothers by Thomas MannDoctor Faustus by Thomas MannTonio Kröger by Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann and Family
109 books — 18 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldWinnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
765 books — 1,133 voters

Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonRebecca by Daphne du MaurierRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellLord of the Flies by William Golding
Down by the Sea
740 books — 556 voters
The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanAnya's Ghost by Vera BrosgolBlankets by Craig ThompsonThe Arrival by Shaun TanThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Graphic Novels for Older High Schoolers
120 books — 19 voters

Puhdistus by Sofi Oksanenسینوهه by Mika WaltariThe Unknown Soldier by Väinö LinnaEnnen päivänlaskua ei voi by Johanna SinisaloThe Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
Finnish Fiction
388 books — 126 voters
Being and Time by Martin HeideggerPhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantTruth and Method by Hans-Georg GadamerThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Essential Continental Philosophy
75 books — 24 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonHunger by Knut Hamsun
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,209 books — 1,244 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerMatilda by Roald DahlBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,248 books — 2,426 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
443 books — 231 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,062 books — 957 voters


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