The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Japanese Fiction
411 books — 331 voters

Headlong by Michael Frayn
Art & Artists in Fiction
922 books — 1,100 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SterneLife by Georges PerecThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,867 books — 6,999 voters
Pyrrhus by Mark MerlisAmerican Studies by Mark MerlisMemories of the Ford Administration by John UpdikeHandsome Men Are Slightly Sunburnt by Frank RonanWrong by Dennis Cooper
Nudes
580 books — 80 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoA History of Reading by Alberto ManguelThe Emigrants by W.G. SebaldHis Arms Are Full of Broken Things by P.B. ParrisThe Author Of Himself by Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Bifocals!
302 books — 52 voters
The Enlightenment, Volume 1 by Peter GayThe Enlightenment, Volume 2 by Peter GayRadical Enlightenment by Jonathan I. IsraelEnlightenment Contested by Jonathan I. IsraelEnlightenment by Roy Porter
The Enlightenment and its Impact
260 books — 85 voters

The Discovery of Heaven by Harry MulischThe Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia OzickThe Story of the Night by Colm TóibínOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Great Books with BLACK Covers
2,101 books — 750 voters

Het boek van violet en dood by Gerard ReveMurther and Walking Spirits by Robertson DaviesThe Night Listener by Armistead MaupinEen circusjongen by Gerard RevePurple Cow by Seth Godin
The Color Purple
1,562 books — 409 voters
Persuasion by Jane AustenMansfield Park by Jane AustenEmma by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Your Favourite Jane Austen Novel
7 books — 61 voters

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
More Jane for the Austen Purist
149 books — 137 voters
The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannFaust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaDoctor Faustus by Thomas MannThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,032 books — 951 voters