The Waves by Virginia WoolfA Conceptual Circus by Kenneth Jarrett SingletonUlysses by James JoyceBy Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth SmartParis Spleen by Charles Baudelaire
Prose poetry
97 books — 51 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraConfessions by Augustine of HippoCity of God by Augustine of Hippo
Philosophy & Literature Survival Kit
100 books — 4 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Best Literary Mysteries
2,536 books — 4,538 voters
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Waves by Virginia WoolfThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Great Stream of Consciousness Novels
145 books — 193 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoA Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasMy Life in France by Julia Child
Books About Paris
712 books — 570 voters

A Town Like Alice by Nevil ShuteThe Light Between Oceans by M.L. StedmanPicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayThe Secret River by Kate GrenvilleThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Fictitious Australia
459 books — 114 voters

Kokomo by Victoria HannanThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionThe Trauma Cleaner by Sarah KrasnosteinCherry Beach by Laura McPhee-BrowneThe Rip by Mark Brandi
Books about Melbourne
140 books — 12 voters
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezBreath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Caribbean Literature
578 books — 261 voters