Circle of Friends by Maeve BinchyIn the Woods by Tana FrenchDubliners by James JoyceTara Road by Maeve BinchyTrinity by Leon Uris
Best Fiction Set in Ireland
813 books — 543 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtDubliners by James JoyceDracula by Bram StokerUlysses by James Joyce
Best Irish Literature
629 books — 715 voters

The Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxDas Kapital by Karl MarxThe State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninReform or Revolution by Rosa LuxemburgSocialism by Friedrich Engels
Socialist Classics
417 books — 326 voters
Maldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de LautréamontNadja by André BretonThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonIlluminations by Arthur RimbaudStory of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Best Surrealist or Dadaist Books
126 books — 103 voters

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
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll1984 by George OrwellThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Reality Warping Fiction
328 books — 168 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceI Seem To Be A Verb by R. Buckminster FullerRiddley Walker by Russell HobanA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Books Bordering on Unintelligible
12 books — 14 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellSaint Richard Parker by Merlin FrancoBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson
Best Social and Political Satires
494 books — 496 voters

Glamorama by Bret Easton EllisThe Beasts of Success by Jasun EtherThe Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Best Satires
300 books — 372 voters
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsCatch-22 by Joseph HellerGood Omens by Terry PratchettThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Funniest Novels of All Time
1,404 books — 2,273 voters

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonGood Omens by Terry PratchettA Dirty Job by Christopher MooreThe Beasts of Success by Jasun EtherChoke by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Dark Humor
726 books — 1,648 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Absurdist Fiction
272 books — 282 voters