Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
585 books — 2,042 voters
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton11/22/63 by Stephen        KingThe Heart's Invisible Furies by John BoyneThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
[ATY 2021] - Long Books
283 books — 59 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyShōgun by James ClavellDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Very Long Novels
64 books — 68 voters

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles DickensThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyDead Souls by Nikolai GogolThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
Best Known Unfinished Novels/Series
62 books — 81 voters
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleDubliners by James Joyce
Best Short Stories
1,755 books — 1,050 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsDivergent by Veronica RothEnder's Game by Orson Scott Card
Quick reads - Sci Fi & Fantasy
137 books — 127 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeWelcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Good short fiction
659 books — 396 voters


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