Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTrainspotting by Irvine WelshInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Transgressive Fiction
873 books — 970 voters
The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig ClevengerSkagboys by Irvine WelshKiss Me, Judas by Will Christopher BaerBeing a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For by Sara PascoeGallant by V.E. Schwab
Best Books You've Never Heard Of
1,267 books — 790 voters

Magic America by C.E. MedfordIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe End of The Computer by Andre Mikhailovich SolonitsynBlubber Island by Guillermo GalvanThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
strangest written books ever
39 books — 40 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Writers who committed suicide
458 books — 285 voters
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespearePositive Vision by Ken BrandtThe Invisible Man by H.G. WellsThrough the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis CarrollBlindness by José Saramago
Sight
559 books — 52 voters

The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeThe Quincunx by Charles PalliserThe Elephant Tree by R.D. RonaldLost in Yaba by Walt GleesonPower And Prediction by Ajay Agrawal
Best Unappreciated Books
4,377 books — 2,212 voters
Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerOn the Road by Jack KerouacThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Books for Wanderers
63 books — 54 voters

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotAriel by Sylvia Plath
Best Poetry Books
3,003 books — 2,484 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
1,184 books — 1,193 voters


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