Beloved by Toni Morrison
WHERE IS OUR BLACK AVANT GARDE?
30 books — 29 voters
Malakut and Other Stories by Bahram SadeghiThe Blind Owl by Sadegh HedayatHet boek der koningen by Abolqasem FerdowsiThe Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadiکلیدر by محمود دولت‌آبادی
Iranian Fiction
45 books — 53 voters

Absalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Passion According to G.H. by Clarice LispectorAusterlitz by W.G. SebaldThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonThe Waves by Virginia Woolf
r/TrueLit Read-Along Selections
12 books — 1 voter
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustPère Goriot by Honoré de BalzacThe Red and the Black by StendhalJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Best French Literature
872 books — 1,573 voters

Cards on the Table by Agatha ChristieThe Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
And Then There Were None: Deadly Parties
117 books — 111 voters
Green for Danger by Christianna BrandThe Problem of the Green Capsule by John Dickson CarrCards on the Table by Agatha ChristieThe Siamese Twin Mystery by Ellery QueenThe Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
Closed Circle Mysteries
96 books — 22 voters

The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresChess Story by Stefan ZweigLife and Fate by Vasily GrossmanThe Chrysalids by John WyndhamThe Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 890 voters
Till Death Do Us Part by John Dickson CarrThe Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony BerkeleyThe Corpse in the Waxworks by John Dickson CarrThe Lost Gallows by John Dickson CarrFell Murder by E.C.R. Lorac
British Library Crime Classics
144 books — 115 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAsja by Ivan TurgenevHeart of a Dog by Mikhail BulgakovThe Queen of Spades by Alexander PushkinFirst Love by Ivan Turgenev
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,276 voters

The Three Coffins by John Dickson CarrRim of the Pit by Hake TalbotThe Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston LerouxThe Crooked Hinge by John Dickson CarrThe Judas Window by Carter Dickson
A Locked Room Library
91 books — 5 voters
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieA Murder Is Announced by Agatha ChristieThe Three Coffins by John Dickson CarrGreen for Danger by Christianna BrandThe Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
Best Murder Mysteries Of All-Time
993 books — 719 voters

Clutch of Constables by Ngaio MarshNine and Death Makes Ten by Carter DicksonSinging in the Shrouds by Ngaio MarshThe Case Of The Blind Barber by John Dickson CarrDeath on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Cruising for Crime
65 books — 12 voters
A Murder Is Announced by Agatha ChristieCards on the Table by Agatha ChristieFive Little Pigs by Agatha ChristieCrooked House by Agatha ChristieThe Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
Classic Mysteries (fiction)
229 books — 163 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,191 books — 11,290 voters
Poems of Paul Celan by Paul CelanThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo NerudaShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Best Poetry Books
2,981 books — 2,422 voters

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark TwainJoan of Arc by Mark TwainThe Mysterious Stranger by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Best of Mark Twain
45 books — 105 voters
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,574 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
MUST READ RUSSIAN CLASSICS
113 books — 142 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Stranger by Albert CamusAnimal Farm by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
World's Greatest Novellas
714 books — 1,442 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienWittgenstein’s Mistress by David MarksonThe Recognitions by William GaddisJ R by William GaddisThe Tunnel by William H. Gass
Best Dalkey Archive Titles
152 books — 86 voters
S. by J.J. AbramsHorcynus Orca by Stefano D'ArrigoPrae by Miklós Szentkuthy
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 143 voters

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Dead by James JoyceThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Story of an Hour by Kate ChopinThe Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
Best Short Stories of All Time
612 books — 388 voters
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil2666 by Roberto BolañoThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Greatest Big Novels
75 books — 19 voters


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