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2666 by Roberto BolañoLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Savage Detectives by Roberto BolañoThe Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
Books that scored a five by me
9,435 books — 2,354 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyWhite Noise by Don DeLilloThe War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,248 books — 2,424 voters

The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell2666 by Roberto BolañoBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
High Body Counts
340 books — 171 voters
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
I Wish I Could Read it Again for the First Time
11,065 books — 7,228 voters

Far North by Marcel Theroux
Ice and Snow
685 books — 191 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Most Frequently Challenged Books
242 books — 136 voters

The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
1,416 books — 2,300 voters
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Trippy Books
831 books — 893 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Oprah's Book Club Picks
121 books — 2,199 voters
Inherent Vice by Thomas PynchonThe Savage Detectives by Roberto BolañoThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Detective Fiction
1,178 books — 1,075 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCloud Atlas by David MitchellLabyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Favorites from 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die
500 books — 1,053 voters
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
The Best Antiheroes
701 books — 586 voters

The Kindly Ones by Jonathan LittellBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
Best Historical Fiction
7,264 books — 25,434 voters
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Best Books of 2009
1,769 books — 6,937 voters

The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
World's Greatest Novellas
713 books — 1,438 voters
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,028 books — 951 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Most Difficult Novels
583 books — 2,040 voters
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Best Book Cover Art
12,388 books — 7,101 voters

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Best Philosophical Literature
1,145 books — 2,743 voters
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Best Books of 1998
501 books — 228 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best of Banned and Challenged Books
212 books — 277 voters
The Savage Detectives by Roberto BolañoOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Favorite World Fiction & Literature
733 books — 435 voters

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesBlow-Up and Other Stories by Julio CortázarSixty Stories by Donald BarthelmeDubliners by James Joyce
Collections of Short Stories
2,882 books — 2,036 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Ending
8,051 books — 6,055 voters

V. by Thomas Pynchon
Great Debut Novels
1,567 books — 1,462 voters
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal
466 books — 1,585 voters

The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas LlosaSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseLolita by Vladimir NabokovWhite Noise by Don DeLilloThe Ice-Shirt by William T. Vollmann
Books That Exceeded Your Expectations
14,505 books — 16,077 voters
The Trial by Franz KafkaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLolita by Vladimir NabokovHopscotch by Julio CortázarThe Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,253 books — 118,448 voters

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books Set in Appalachia
793 books — 836 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Best Southern Literature
1,334 books — 2,573 voters