If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Metafiction
442 books — 577 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardDune by Frank Herbert1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,254 books — 24,502 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rabelais' Codpiece
134 books — 143 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,064 books — 890 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
The Iowa Writers' Workshop
141 books — 32 voters
On the Road by Jack KerouacThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Road by Cormac McCarthyFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonSo Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
Great Road Novels
80 books — 33 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienOn the Road by Jack KerouacThe Odyssey by HomerThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Road Trip
526 books — 266 voters
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Waves by Virginia WoolfThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Great Stream of Consciousness Novels
145 books — 193 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cult Classics
1,566 books — 2,148 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,104 books — 1,738 voters