The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. SayersThe End of the Affair by Graham GreeneThe Go-Between by L.P. HartleyTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le CarréCarry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Best Novels Set in 20th-century Britain
397 books — 213 voters
Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andreï MakineSlowness by Milan KunderaThe Elementary Particles by Michel HouellebecqPlatform by Michel HouellebecqOut of the Dark (European Women Writers by Patrick Modiano
France in Contemporary Fiction
258 books — 181 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingUnnatural Death by Dorothy L. SayersDeath of an Expert Witness by P.D. JamesThe Ghost in the Machine by Arthur KoestlerThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Spectral Titles
341 books — 56 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Life of Samuel Johnson by James BoswellThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Over 500 pages
434 books — 108 voters

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil by Anthony TrollopeDeath of a Swagman by Arthur W. UpfieldCooper's Creek by Alan MooreheadJohn Caldigate by Anthony Trollope
Books Set in Australia
665 books — 197 voters

The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriBen-Hur by Lew WallaceBarabbas by Pär LagerkvistThe Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Best Biblical Fiction
394 books — 605 voters
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto CalassoGreek Religion by Walter BurkertFive Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray
Greek Mythology
525 books — 589 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerThe Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. HeilbronerGo Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Best Books 1953
138 books — 55 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyThe Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Perfo... by Peter WeissThe French Revolution by Thomas CarlyleCitizens by Simon Schama
The French Revolution
229 books — 291 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThousand Cranes by Yasunari KawabataSilence by Shūsaku EndōSputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Japanese Fiction
411 books — 331 voters
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio PazAn Easy Thing by Paco Ignacio Taibo IILos de abajo by Mariano AzuelaPopol Vuh by AnonymousThe Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel by Anonymous
Mexican Literature
392 books — 191 voters

Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg by H.R.F. KeatingGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussEggs, Beans, and Crumpets by P.G. Wodehouse
Eggs
132 books — 22 voters
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Spain
513 books — 243 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,857 voters
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,203 books — 28,366 voters

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul RepsCloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown by Alan W. WattsZen in the Art of Archery by Eugen HerrigelBashō's Narrow Road by Matsuo BashōAn Introduction to Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki
Insightful Zen Buddhism Books
159 books — 135 voters
Bleak House by Charles DickensDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellLondon by Peter AckroydThe Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel PepysThe Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Books Based in London
360 books — 108 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Everyone's Read It But Me
800 books — 4,332 voters
The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Walter ScottRob Roy by Walter ScottPoems and Songs by Robert BurnsKidnapped by Robert Louis StevensonA Journey to the Western Islands of  Scotland and The Journal... by Samuel Johnson
Books Set in Scotland
998 books — 663 voters

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan PoeNine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Collections of Short Stories
2,883 books — 2,037 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMiddlemarch by George EliotSongs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
1,029 books — 343 voters
Siddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Dhammapada by AnonymousThe Way of Zen by Alan W. WattsZen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul RepsThe Life of Milarepa by Tsangnyön Heruka
A Buddhist Reading List
893 books — 1,153 voters

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamukالحرافيش by Naguib MahfouzThe White Castle by Orhan PamukMidaq Alley by Naguib MahfouzAli and Nino by Kurban Said
Best Middle East Fiction
431 books — 480 voters
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynRoadside Picnic by Arkady StrugatskyThe First Circle by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynKolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
Best Post WWII Soviet Lit
57 books — 74 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonFlannery O'Connor by Flannery O'ConnorThe Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
Best Books by American Women
560 books — 183 voters