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The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno SchulzAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Waves by Virginia WoolfFerdydurke by Witold GombrowiczNightwood by Djuna Barnes
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
905 books — 1,249 voters
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora CarringtonSuite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie LégerEvent Factory by Renee GladmanThe Babysitter at Rest by Jen GeorgeWho Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
Dorothy, A Publishing Project
31 books — 27 voters

Sphinx by Anne Garréta
Blacks in Europe
86 books — 21 voters
Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō AbeWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
100 Must-Read Works of Speculative Fiction In Translation
100 books — 55 voters

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonThe Female Man by Joanna RussHer Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels By Female Authors
100 books — 85 voters
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonThe Lover by Marguerite DurasVoyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys
Staff picks: Feminist books for International Women’s Day
42 books — 47 voters

Mauve Desert by Nicole BrossardTwo Serious Ladies by Jane BowlesThe Female Man by Joanna RussNightwood by Djuna Barnes
Lesbian novels from before 1990
246 books — 108 voters
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
What should be my first book of 2016
17 books — 42 voters

Women by Philippe SollersThe Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinAutumn in Peking by Boris Vian
"...if _______ is not the book version of everything horrible and unjust that the patriarchy stands for, I do not know what is."
170 books — 94 voters
Against the Day by Thomas PynchonThe Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
Best Books of 2006
987 books — 742 voters

Frances Johnson by Stacey LevineConsider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster WallaceEurope Central by William T. VollmannGod Jr. by Dennis CooperExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Best Books of 2005
875 books — 636 voters
Secret Rendezvous by Kōbō AbeIce by Anna KavanDriftglass by Samuel R. DelanyThe Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela CarterThe Free-Lance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed
Great Book Covers
726 books — 108 voters

The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota KristófPallaksch, Pallaksch by Liliane GiraudonMauve Desert by Nicole BrossardThe Man of Jasmine & Other Texts by Unica ZürnThe Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
Women in Translation
919 books — 300 voters
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonThe Female Man by Joanna RussTen Thousand Light-Years from Home by James Tiptree Jr.The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Speculative Fiction Classics (pre-1980) by Female Authors
169 books — 95 voters

Ice by Anna KavanDhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyThe Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota KristófEpitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de AssisSleep Has His House by Anna Kavan
Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men
1,194 books — 339 voters
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le GuinOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Female Man by Joanna Russ
Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
1,705 books — 1,553 voters

The Cage by Martin Vaughn-JamesBlack Hole by Charles BurnsTravel by Yuichi YokoyamaDriven by Lemons by Joshua W. CotterThe Frank Book by Jim Woodring
Best Art Comics of All Time
373 books — 90 voters
The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
Favorite Virago Modern Classics
270 books — 203 voters

Ice by Anna KavanThe Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota KristófTripticks by Ann QuinBetween by Christine Brooke-RoseThe Stain by Rikki Ducornet
Great Women Authors
1,227 books — 333 voters
Ice by Anna KavanThe Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. BallardTripticks by Ann QuinThe Christine Brooke-Rose Omnibus by Christine Brooke-RoseChristie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson
British Experimental Novels 1940-1980
90 books — 43 voters

The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota KristófThe Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite DurasNevermore by Marie RedonnetThe Man of Jasmine & Other Texts by Unica ZürnSchool of the Sun by Ana María Matute
Women Around the World
1,157 books — 429 voters
Fictions by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonStory of the Eye by Georges BatailleThe Waves by Virginia Woolf
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 483 voters

Ice by Anna KavanThe Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota KristófFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesTopology of a Phantom City by Alain Robbe-GrilletLa Belle Captive by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Postmodern Genius
506 books — 582 voters
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Great Fire of London by Jacques RoubaudBlood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
The Shandian Spawn
169 books — 49 voters

Island People by Coleman Dowell
REALLY, Really Underrated Books (Fewer than 100 Ratings)
1,562 books — 239 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinInvitation to a Beheading by Vladimir NabokovA God-forsaken Hole by Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 499 voters

The Stone Door by Leonora CarringtonThe Seventh Horse and Other Tales by Leonora CarringtonGoose of Hermogenes by Ithell ColquhounThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonChasm by Dorothea Tanning
Best Surrealist or Dadaist Books
125 books — 103 voters
The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota KristófA Minor Apocalypse by Tadeusz KonwickiA Dreambook for Our Time by Tadeusz KonwickiInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoJoko’s Anniversary by Roland Topor
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,074 books — 621 voters

Cronopios and Famas by Julio CortázarJoko’s Anniversary by Roland ToporThe Seventh Horse and Other Tales by Leonora CarringtonA Minor Apocalypse by Tadeusz KonwickiThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Books that Make you Laugh
3,487 books — 5,028 voters
The Melancholy of Resistance by László KrasznahorkaiThe Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota KristófLiquidation by Imre Kertész
20th Century Hungarian Literature
144 books — 187 voters


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