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Trainspotting by Irvine WelshA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Contemporary Cult Fiction
492 books — 453 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerTrouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
697 books — 872 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Literary Fiction
1,537 books — 1,341 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessCandide by VoltaireSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsChess Story by Stefan Zweig
World's Greatest Novellas
713 books — 1,436 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Moviegoer by Walker PercyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education
98 books — 70 voters
The Cantos by Ezra PoundFinnegans Wake by James Joyce
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
260 books — 361 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,183 books — 117,874 voters
Inferno by Dante AlighieriThe Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2 by Dante AlighieriParadiso by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 355 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
920 books — 2,381 voters
The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanWatchmen by Alan MoorePersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Best Graphic Novels
3,433 books — 6,754 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceNausea by Jean-Paul SartreCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most Difficult Novels
583 books — 2,040 voters
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Abandoned Books
1,469 books — 1,467 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceLolita by Vladimir NabokovA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Books Ever
74,788 books — 277,604 voters
The Odyssey by Homer
I'm glad someone made me read this book
10,514 books — 10,132 voters