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The History of Love by Nicole KraussJew Süss by Lion FeuchtwangerMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim PotokThe Fixer by Bernard MalamudKaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
Jews in Literature
876 books — 310 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo LeviThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonDoktor Faustus by Thomas Mann
Well-Written Holocaust Books
886 books — 2,874 voters

The Complete Stories by Franz KafkaThe Clown by Heinrich BöllThe Trial by Franz KafkaGalileo by Bertolt Brecht
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,028 books — 951 voters
Anil's Ghost by Michael OndaatjeIn the Woods by Tana French
Forensic Fiction
188 books — 114 voters

The Night Gardener by George P. PelecanosLush Life by Richard PriceDeadly Intent by Lynda La PlanteEcho Park by Michael ConnellyThe Renegades by T. Jefferson Parker
Best Police Procedurals - Mystery Fiction
1,073 books — 820 voters
Freedomland by Richard PriceClockers by Richard PriceLush Life by Richard PriceThe Night Gardener by George P. PelecanosHomicide by David Simon
Great books by writers of hbo's the wire
30 books — 72 voters

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy GrealyMean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway
Most Excellent Memoirs Relating To Bodies, etc
54 books — 89 voters
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick FlynnOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Book Titles
11,333 books — 7,588 voters

Call Me By Your Name by André AcimanOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonThe Necessary Hunger by Nina RevoyrMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite YourcenarThe Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
Best Gay Fiction
2,639 books — 3,823 voters
Ficciones by Jorge Luis BorgesFranz Kafka's The Castle by David Fishelson
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,297 books — 4,459 voters

The Water Cure by Percival EverettExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 249 voters
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriSelected Stories by Alice MunroRunaway by Alice MunroNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
125 books — 223 voters

Silence by Shūsaku EndōGrüner Baum in Flammen by Kenzaburō Ōe
Best Japanese Books
772 books — 3,241 voters
Miami by Joan DidionThe Agüero Sisters by Cristina GarcíaTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonKilling Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen
miami (and south florida)
153 books — 91 voters

Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniThe Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
best books concerning dreams
419 books — 170 voters
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Best Feminist Science Fiction/Fantasy
681 books — 630 voters

The Fatigue Artist by Lynne Sharon SchwartzAutobiography of a Face by Lucy GrealyBlindness by José SaramagoMean Little Deaf Queer by Terry GallowayTongue Twister by Benjamin H. Bloom
Books that Embody an Artistic Expression of the Disability Experience.
210 books — 146 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Autism in Fiction
451 books — 500 voters

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriSons and Other Flammable Objects by Porochista KhakpourThe Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong KingstonChina Men by Maxine Hong KingstonBreath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,001 books — 1,432 voters
Nights at the Circus by Angela CarterGeek Love by Katherine Dunn
Circus/Carnival Books
703 books — 1,082 voters

The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem AslamHomebody/Kabul by Tony Kushner
Afghanistan in Literature
220 books — 264 voters
The White Bone by Barbara GowdyHorse Heaven by Jane Smiley
Best Books About Animals
1,840 books — 1,854 voters

Flight by Sherman Alexie
Best Fiction about Adoption
329 books — 224 voters
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related T... by Edgar Allan Poe
Nautical Novels
428 books — 330 voters

The Monk by Matthew Gregory LewisThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsMelmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert MaturinThe Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Best Gothic Books of All Time
564 books — 3,472 voters
Janet Frame by Janet FrameAutobiography of a Face by Lucy GrealySkating to Antarctica by Jenny DiskiSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo LeviThe Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne Scholinski
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,091 books — 1,949 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,983 voters
Regeneration by Pat Barker
World War One Literature
224 books — 358 voters

Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
New Zealand
397 books — 203 voters
July's People by Nadine GordimerLight in August by William FaulknerNo One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Months of the Year
498 books — 63 voters