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
1,028 books — 951 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
747 books — 1,812 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCandide by VoltaireLa vida de Lazarillo de Tormes by AnonymousGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Best Picaresque Novels
123 books — 74 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Awakening by Kate ChopinSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Librivox
82 books — 8 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyDracula by Bram StokerJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
LibriVox Audiobooks
169 books — 63 voters
Harry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. RowlingReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Land by Aleron KongThe Martian by Andy Weir
Best Audiobooks Ever
1,968 books — 2,833 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte PerkinsI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithMy Antonia by Willa Cather
Favorite Virago Modern Classics
270 books — 205 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Best Books for Lit Majors
276 books — 45 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareJourney to the West by Biao  WangThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Becoming Culturally Literate
197 books — 77 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 — 481 voters