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Finnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgessموت سرير رقم 12 by Ghassan Kanafani
Most Difficult Novels
585 books — 2,042 voters
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Women in White
491 books — 104 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Cherry Orchard by Anton ChekhovThe Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh
Fruits and Vegetables in Titles
969 books — 181 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahameWhite Fang by Jack LondonSirius by Olaf Stapledon
Best Animal-Themed Books
610 books — 485 voters

The Futurological Congress by Stanisław LemOne Human Minute by Stanisław LemCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Tragedy of Man by Imre Madách
Best Dark Humor
726 books — 1,649 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark TwainDr. Futurity by Philip K. Dick
Best Time Travel Fiction
1,948 books — 5,216 voters

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussThe Jungle by Upton SinclairDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Satyricon by Petronius
Food-Related Fiction
855 books — 601 voters
The Prose Edda by Snorri SturlusonThe Sagas of Icelanders by Jane Smiley
Top Books on Germanic Paganism
114 books — 39 voters

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George OrwellThe Art of Teaching by Gilbert HighetLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. ChestertonThe Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
The books of my 20s
25 books — 7 voters
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott by Walter ScottThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyBleak House by Charles Dickens
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,868 books — 7,002 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,267 books — 24,514 voters
Night by Elie WieselWest with the Night by Beryl MarkhamMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanParis to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,772 books — 6,303 voters

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
Tin Pan Alley
41 books — 14 voters
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeDracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis StevensonCarmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The best gothic novels, ghost stories and early horror 1764-1937
358 books — 713 voters

From Hell by Alan MooreThe Threepenny Opera by Bertolt BrechtThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer
Victorian London
124 books — 105 voters
The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaCivil War Poetry and Prose by Walt WhitmanThe Iliad by HomerThe Aeneid by Virgil
War Poetry
40 books — 17 voters

Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonMaster & Commander by Patrick O'BrianTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneThe Mutiny on the Bounty Trilogy by Charles Bernard NordhoffCaptain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Nautical Tales
742 books — 398 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonOut of Africa by Isak DinesenThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,748 books — 1,616 voters

The Call of the Wild by Jack LondonMy Dog Tulip by J.R. AckerleySirius by Olaf Stapledon
Top Dog Reads
655 books — 669 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyThe Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
Swashbucklers
559 books — 496 voters

Washington Square by Henry James
Umbrellas
491 books — 199 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsFar Rainbow / The Second Invasion from Mars by Arkady Strugatsky
Lines Across the Sky
37 books — 12 voters

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Guns and Knives
422 books — 64 voters
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo AndrićThe Bridge in the Jungle by B. Traven
Bridges
421 books — 84 voters

Oedipus Rex by SophoclesThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Oresteia by Aeschylus
patricide and matricide
30 books — 15 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Unhappy Marriages
483 books — 285 voters

Krúdy's Chronicles by John BatkiWar & War by László KrasznahorkaiEmbers by Sándor MáraiAdventures of Sindbad by Gyula KrúdyThe Phoenix Land by Miklós Bánffy
20th Century Hungarian Literature
145 books — 188 voters
The Emperor by Ryszard KapuścińskiThe Painted Bird by Jerzy KosińskiThe Star Diaries by Stanisław LemThe Futurological Congress by Stanisław LemGimpel the Fool and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Best Polish Books
574 books — 551 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Great American Novel
666 books — 1,086 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerGo Down, Moses by William FaulknerLight in August by William Faulkner
Best Southern Books
826 books — 738 voters