Play It As It Lays by Joan DidionBel Canto by Ann PatchettDeath on the Nile by Agatha ChristieThe Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le GuinWaiting for God by Simone Weil
Favourite female writers
400 books — 30 voters
The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip José FarmerThe Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny
Fencing fiction
156 books — 222 voters

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond RostandMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Nose as main focus
51 books — 34 voters
The Unvanquished by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,573 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyDog Soldiers by Robert  Stone
Favorite Books
14,395 books — 9,983 voters
Dead Souls by Nikolai GogolThe Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Known Unfinished Novels/Series
62 books — 81 voters

Bear and His Daughter by Robert  StoneCarried Away by Alice Munro
Best Short Stories
1,758 books — 1,040 voters
The Captain's Daughter by Alexander PushkinSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Ebony Tower by John FowlesBeing There by Jerzy KosińskiPnin by Vladimir Nabokov
World's Greatest Novellas
714 books — 1,444 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Naked and the Dead by Norman MailerFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Great World by David MaloufThe Iliad by Homer
Best War Novels
1,671 books — 1,389 voters
Into a Black Sun by Takeshi Kaikō
Best Books on Vietnam
210 books — 175 voters

The Escoffier Cookbook and Guide to the Fine Art of Cookery by Auguste EscoffierThe French Chef Cookbook by Julia ChildThe Joy of Cooking by Irma S. RombauerLe répertoire de la cuisine by Louis SaulnierHering's dictionary of classical and modern cookery and pract... by richard-hering
Best Cookbooks Ever
547 books — 216 voters
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard BrautiganOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,356 books — 1,779 voters

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Your Favourite Book of Poetry.
906 books — 649 voters
Lord of Light by Roger ZelaznyDestination by Frank Herbert
Classic Science Fiction - 1960-1969
293 books — 246 voters

Lord of Light by Roger ZelaznyThis Immortal by Roger ZelaznyDoorways in the Sand by Roger ZelaznyToday We Choose Faces by Roger ZelaznyCoils by Roger Zelazny
Roger Zelazny (Your favourite)
73 books — 141 voters
The End of Eternity by Isaac AsimovThe Sheltering Sky by Paul BowlesThe Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye /... by Raymond ChandlerAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Alliterations
1,157 books — 100 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoRed Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,314 books — 15,565 voters
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Crossing by Cormac McCarthyA Hall of Mirrors by Robert  StoneAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Quality Dark Fiction
2,510 books — 3,227 voters

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Best Graham Greene novels
25 books — 205 voters

The Queen of the Damned by Anne RiceThe Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Best Horror Novels
1,987 books — 5,448 voters
Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffreyGlory Season by David Brin
Best Science Fiction With a Female Protagonist
1,386 books — 2,820 voters

This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
Books with Greek mythology references
508 books — 696 voters
This Immortal by Roger ZelaznyThe Mummy by Anne Rice
Sexiest Immortal Males of All Time
831 books — 1,437 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,042 voters
Theaetetus by PlatoThe Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaTen Plays by EuripidesThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusCivilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Best books for humanities degree
408 books — 93 voters

This Immortal by Roger ZelaznyThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwaySundiver by David Brin
Heroes & Adventures
558 books — 187 voters
The Naked and the Dead by Norman MailerCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerTao Te Ching by Lao TzuOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,575 books — 120,238 voters


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