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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Man Booker 2009 - Longlist
12 books — 30 voters
February by Lisa Moore
Man Booker 2010 longlist
13 books — 46 voters

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2012 Man Booker Prize Longlist
12 books — 177 voters
Autumn by Ali Smith
Man Booker Longlist 2017
13 books — 57 voters

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Man Booker 2016 Longlist
13 books — 97 voters
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Most influential books under 100 pages
250 books — 925 voters

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Boat People by Sharon BalaWolf Hall by Hilary MantelWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Great Women Authors
1,227 books — 333 voters
Middlemarch by George EliotTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Victorian Novels
213 books — 504 voters

White Noise by Don DeLilloThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathRagtime by E.L. DoctorowThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Great American Novel
666 books — 1,088 voters
Herzog by Saul BellowThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonWhite Noise by Don DeLilloDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
(Not) Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
100 books — 159 voters

Birds of America by Lorrie MooreMetamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz KafkaDubliners by James JoyceThis Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
Badass Short Story Collections (Or So I Hear)
464 books — 261 voters
Lucky Jim by Kingsley AmisWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
BBC Culture Worldwide 100 Greatest British Novels
100 books — 25 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams1984 by George Orwell
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,820 voters
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
377 books — 408 voters

Down and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellHomage to Catalonia by George OrwellTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
905 books — 1,250 voters
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Best Books 1978
234 books — 58 voters

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Best Books 1979
179 books — 68 voters
Saturday by Ian McEwanWolf Hall by Hilary MantelNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroBring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Contemporary British Novels
504 books — 429 voters

Disgrace by J.M. CoetzeeA Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
Best Postcolonial Literature (fiction and nonfiction)
186 books — 141 voters
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
99 books — 268 voters

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Pulitzer Winners: General Non-fiction
85 books — 342 voters
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe Waste Land by T.S. EliotHerzog by Saul BellowNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
380 books — 276 voters

Disgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe Waste Land by T.S. EliotOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynHerzog by Saul BellowSeize the Day by Saul Bellow
Nobel Laureates
659 books — 563 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazWolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Goodreads 21st Century Literature Group - Most Important Books of the 21st Century
184 books — 213 voters

The Upanishads by Anonymous
Best Holy Books
268 books — 530 voters
The Boat People by Sharon Bala
2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize
16 books — 4 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyWatchmen by Alan MooreOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Most Popular Science Fiction on Goodreads
253 books — 512 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Nebula Award for Best Novel
62 books — 391 voters

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lithub's Most Important Books of the Last Twenty Years
120 books — 40 voters
White Noise by Don DeLilloAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyHerzog by Saul BellowBehind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine BooGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
National Book Award Winners
240 books — 203 voters