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White Ivy by Susie YangTranscendent Kingdom by Yaa GyasiThe Night Watchman by Louise ErdrichThe Mirror & the Light by Hilary MantelDeacon King Kong by James McBride
Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction
584 books — 1,239 voters
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert TressellThe Bone Clocks by David MitchellThe Laughing Monsters by Denis JohnsonTitus Groan by Mervyn PeakeThe Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
There Ought to be a Band
2,435 books — 1,109 voters

The Magus by John Fowles
Best Books Set In Greece
152 books — 189 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Lolita by Vladimir NabokovA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Best Books Ever
74,927 books — 277,923 voters

Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Secret History by Donna TarttThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienFall of Giants by Ken Follett
Smart Summer Reads
12,532 books — 10,435 voters
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan LethemHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,851 books — 21,781 voters

Pale Fire by Vladimir NabokovThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckUlysses by James Joyce1984 by George OrwellOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,789 books — 49,738 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Best Historical Fiction
7,261 books — 25,409 voters