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2666 by Roberto BolañoUnderworld by Don DeLilloThe Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
The 800+ page Gorillaz
459 books — 518 voters
Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary - 2 vol... by Irené ¼s B01 Wotherspoon
Best Books of 2009
1,769 books — 6,937 voters

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald2666 by Roberto BolañoCloud Atlas by David MitchellKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,203 books — 28,365 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustLife by Georges PerecThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasPère Goriot by Honoré de BalzacThe Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
Best French Literature
870 books — 1,549 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceA Frolic of His Own by William GaddisEl amor en los tiempos del cólera by Gabriel García Márquez
Metafiction
442 books — 577 voters
Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon SchamaThe Gift by Lewis HydeThe Lamp of Beauty by Joan EvansWays of Seeing by John BergerThe Sight of Death by T.J. Clark
The World History of Art
377 books — 137 voters

Pale Fire by Vladimir NabokovInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceCloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 249 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfZeno's Conscience by Italo SvevoSodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
765 books — 1,134 voters

A Frolic of His Own by William GaddisForty Stories by Donald BarthelmeNabokov's Butterflies by Vladimir NabokovGiordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair by John BossyThe Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
Sensitive Blood-Drinkers, Sexy Bad-Boys and Gallant Scottish Noblemen... or NOT
633 books — 107 voters
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Human Stain by Philip RothThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera1984 by George OrwellThe Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,560 books — 18,700 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaElegy for Iris by John Bayley
Books Made into Movies
1,103 books — 436 voters
The Volcano Lover by Susan SontagMy Name Is Red by Orhan PamukThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John FowlesThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Alienist by Caleb Carr
Best Historical Fiction
7,266 books — 25,439 voters

The Recognitions by William GaddisMy Name Is Red by Orhan PamukThe Book of Evidence by John BanvilleThe Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de BalzacShamrock Tea by Ciaran Carson
Art & Artists in Fiction
922 books — 1,099 voters
Money by Martin AmisPnin by Vladimir NabokovA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Best Humorous Books
4,290 books — 7,880 voters

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir NabokovCollected Stories by Saul BellowThe Early Stories, 1953-1975 by John UpdikeForty Stories by Donald BarthelmeSixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
Collections of Short Stories
2,883 books — 2,037 voters
The Volcano Lover by Susan SontagAusterlitz by W.G. SebaldLolita by Vladimir NabokovSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Books Ever
75,167 books — 279,017 voters

The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuściński
Best Polish Books
574 books — 551 voters
Speak, Memory by Vladimir NabokovElegy for Iris by John BayleyIsaiah Berlin by Michael IgnatieffExperience by Martin AmisCider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,767 books — 6,298 voters

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustFranz Kafka's The Castle by David Fishelson
Best Philosophical Literature
1,147 books — 2,744 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoySnow Country & Thousand Cranes by Yasunari KawabataThe Red and the Black by StendhalSilk by Alessandro Baricco
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,078 books — 622 voters

G. by John BergerThe Sea, the Sea by Iris MurdochThe Sea by John BanvilleMoon Tiger by Penelope LivelyThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,983 voters
In Patagonia by Bruce ChatwinThe Road to Oxiana by Robert ByronThe Songlines by Bruce ChatwinThe Great Railway Bazaar by Paul TherouxThe Ends of the Earth by Robert D. Kaplan
Have Passport Will Travel
702 books — 586 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiA Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
772 books — 3,241 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Divine Comedy, Volume 1 by Dante AlighieriThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovCelestial Harmonies by Péter EsterházyCryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Want to read books
512 books — 201 voters

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald2666 by Roberto BolañoCloud Atlas by David MitchellWizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,850 books — 21,795 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence DurrellThe Magus by John FowlesA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,790 books — 49,749 voters

The Drowning People by Richard MasonA Good and Happy Child by Justin EvansSpecial Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Worst Books of All Time
8,177 books — 19,867 voters
Essential Stories by V.S. PritchettFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyThe Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence DurrellA Question of Upbringing by Anthony PowellG. by John Berger
Best British and Irish Literature
1,182 books — 1,111 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleRevolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Best Literary Fiction
1,540 books — 1,340 voters


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