Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuShōgun by James Clavell
Japanese Fiction
411 books — 331 voters
Doctor Glas by Hjalmar SöderbergGösta Berling's Saga by Selma LagerlöfThe Emigrants by Vilhelm MobergDen allvarsamma leken by Hjalmar SöderbergThe Dwarf by Pär Lagerkvist
Swedish classics
63 books — 26 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Detective Fiction
1,178 books — 1,075 voters
And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonDeath on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Best Detective/Mystery Series
2,194 books — 2,289 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisThe State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxPolitics by Aristotle
Political Theory
179 books — 48 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellStalin by Simon Sebag MontefioreThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Stalinist Russia
154 books — 50 voters