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In Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
100 books — 477 voters
My Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna AkhmatovaThe Collected Stories by Colette
22 Female Authors to Read in Translation
73 books — 64 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best Literary Historical Fiction
707 books — 227 voters
The Waves by Virginia WoolfPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenMiddlemarch by George EliotWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,071 books — 5,122 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyMiddlemarch by George EliotMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Unhappy Marriages
482 books — 284 voters
A Room with a View by E.M. ForsterMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Story of a New Name by Elena FerranteThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Essential Italy Reading
70 books — 27 voters

Pale Fire by Vladimir NabokovDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Information by Martin AmisMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan LethemThe Quest for Corvo by A.J.A. Symons
Best Humor Writing
807 books — 800 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Dramatic Love Stories
444 books — 716 voters

The Waves by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Great Short Short Books
574 books — 507 voters
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfBleak House by Charles DickensThe Information by Martin AmisWolf Hall by Hilary MantelLondon Fields by Martin Amis
Books Set in London
783 books — 314 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Waves by Virginia WoolfThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyUnderworld by Don DeLilloDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Most Difficult Novels
583 books — 2,040 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Love Stories
5,165 books — 9,612 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Best Female Lead Characters
4,827 books — 5,827 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellTrue History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
1,416 books — 2,284 voters

The Quest for Corvo by A.J.A. Symons
Best Unknown Books
2,326 books — 1,852 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyThe Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLilloMemory Wall by Anthony Doerr
What we've read so far in...2015
9,710 books — 2,058 voters

The Waves by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenMiddlemarch by George EliotWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men
1,194 books — 339 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeHHhH by Laurent BinetAtonement by Ian McEwanTrieste by Daša Drndić
WWII Historic Fiction
1,353 books — 1,512 voters

A Room with a View by E.M. ForsterRomola by George EliotThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleSecrecy by Rupert ThomsonArtemisia by Anna Banti
Books Set in Florence
102 books — 82 voters
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Detective Fiction
1,177 books — 1,074 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayAtonement by Ian McEwan
War/Romance novels
515 books — 673 voters
The Waves by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëMiddlemarch by George EliotPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Great Women Authors
1,227 books — 333 voters

Sexual Personae by Camille PagliaTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Best Feminist Books
2,484 books — 3,472 voters
Those Measureless Fields by Caroline ScottThe Regeneration Trilogy by Pat BarkerParade's End by Ford Madox FordThe Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Best World War I Fiction
152 books — 183 voters

Doctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThose Measureless Fields by Caroline ScottParade's End by Ford Madox FordThe Ghost Road by Pat Barker
World War One Literature
224 books — 358 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeWolf Hall by Hilary MantelOscar and Lucinda by Peter CareyBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelTrue History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,982 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyTender Is the Night by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
526 books — 1,889 voters
The Quest for Corvo by A.J.A. SymonsThe Skin by Curzio Malaparte
New York Review Books - Classics
532 books — 881 voters

The Quest for Corvo by A.J.A. SymonsMorocco by David L. Flusfeder
Good Books Most People Haven't Heard Of
89 books — 39 voters
Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace
Best Japanese Crime Novels
75 books — 58 voters