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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelWolf Hall by Hilary MantelMy Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
NYT The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
100 books — 214 voters
The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,281 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,154 books — 8,891 voters
Dubliners by James JoyceFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesWinesburg, Ohio by Sherwood AndersonRunaway by Alice Munro
Best Short Story Collections
1,552 books — 851 voters

Dubliners by James JoyceFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesWinesburg, Ohio by Sherwood AndersonRunaway by Alice MunroSelf-Help by Lorrie Moore
Collections of Short Stories
2,882 books — 2,036 voters
The Boat People by Sharon BalaThe Luminous Sea by Melissa Barbeau
2020 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist
155 books — 12 voters

To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyAtonement by Ian McEwan
NPR's 100 Years, 100 Novels, One List
100 books — 15 voters
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,007 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwanNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittSaturday by Ian McEwan
Non-Winners of the Man Booker
274 books — 244 voters
Middlemarch by George EliotOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfDubliners by James JoyceOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Must Read Classics
1,851 books — 4,610 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Literary Fiction
1,537 books — 1,341 voters
The Innocents by Michael CrummeySmall Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles
2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize Long List
12 books — 7 voters

Disgrace by J.M. CoetzeeHerzog by Saul BellowPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovWhite Noise by Don DeLilloThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics
497 books — 608 voters
Runaway by Alice Munro
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2004 (fiction and nonfiction)
50 books — 49 voters

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroOn Beauty by Zadie SmithCollapse by Jared Diamond
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2005 (fiction and nonfiction)
74 books — 72 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2006 (fiction and nonfiction)
64 books — 52 voters

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2007 (fiction and nonfiction)
78 books — 60 voters
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 663 voters

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelBehind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine BooThis Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 505 voters
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 155 voters

Autumn by Ali Smith
100 Notable Books of 2017 - The New York Times
100 books — 93 voters
SPQR by Mary Beard
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 205 voters

No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeodFebruary by Lisa Moore
The Great Canadian Reading List - Part 2
53 books — 11 voters
Atonement by Ian McEwanDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Guardian Best British Novel (1980-2005)
65 books — 7 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwanThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroDisgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Observer: The Top 10 British, Irish or Commonwealth Novels from 1980 to 2005
10 books — 22 voters
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton WilderDarkness at Noon by Arthur KoestlerThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel SparkOn the Road by Jack KerouacRagtime by E.L. Doctorow
Random House 100
100 books — 49 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfLucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
20th Century British Literature
20 books — 11 voters
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Man Booker 2008 - Longlist
12 books — 26 voters


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