Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiMetamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Best Surrealist Literature
262 books — 207 voters
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 482 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
Grandfather's Journey by Allen SayTikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene MoselA Single Shard by Linda Sue ParkTea with Milk by Allen SayThe Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack
Best Asian Fiction for Children
58 books — 17 voters

Yoko's Paper Cranes by Rosemary WellsKamishibai Man by Allen SayWabi Sabi by Mark ReibsteinNeon Spectacular by Kody ShaferWhen the Sakura Bloom by Narisa Togo
Best Japan Picture Books
29 books — 6 voters

Exercises in Style by Raymond QueneauInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Prague Cemetery by Umberto EcoIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoCosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Best 'Pataphysical books
78 books — 12 voters
H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Genius of Birds by Jennifer AckermanWesley the Owl by Stacey O'BrienThe Wild Birds by Emily StrelowThe Life of Birds by David Attenborough
Books for Bird Lovers
523 books — 206 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Latin American Fiction
869 books — 1,154 voters
Living Out Islam by Scott Siraj al-Haqq KugleIslamic Homosexualities by Stephen O. MurrayWe Have Always Been Here by Samra HabibIf You Could Be Mine by Sara FarizanHomosexuality in Islam by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle
Queer Islam
84 books — 55 voters

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesOrlando by Virginia WoolfTwelfth Night by William ShakespeareAlanna by Tamora Pierce
Best Gender-Bending Books
603 books — 452 voters
The Book of Beginnings by Christopher X. SullivanThe Friend by Christopher X. SullivanThe ABC's of LGBT+ by Ashley MardellThe Companion by Christopher X. SullivanThe Partner by Christopher X. Sullivan
Ace is the Place - Nonfiction
36 books — 14 voters