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The best horror novels of all time

1 Dracula
2 The Shining
3 Frankenstein

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Every novel to win the Rómulo Gallegos Prize

1 Terra Nostra – Carlos Fuentes (1977)
2 La casa verde – Mario Vargas Llosa (1967)
3 Cien años de soledad – Gabriel García Márquez (1972)

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The best works of Leo Tolstoy

1 War and Peace
2 Anna Karenina
3 The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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The best books by Stanisław Lem

1 Solaris
2 The Cyberiad
3 Return from the Stars

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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners of the 1980s

1 Lonesome Dove — Larry McMurtry
2 Ironweed — William Kennedy
3 A Confederacy of Dunces — John Kennedy Toole

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The Strega Prize winners of the 1990s

1 The Chimera — Sebastiano Vassalli
2 La strada per Roma — Paolo Volponi
3 Nottetempo, casa per casa — Vincenzo Consolo

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The best books by Gabriel García Márquez

1 The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
2 Strange Pilgrims
3 Leaf Storm

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The best psychological thrillers

1 Gone Girl
2 The Silent Patient
3 The Housemaid

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The best books of Brazilian literature

1 Dom Casmurro
2 The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
3 The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

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The best novels by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

1 The Club Dumas
2 The Fencing Master
3 Captain Alatriste

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The novels that won Spain's Nadal Prize from 1995 to 2025

1 Cruzar el Danubio – Ignacio Carrión
2 Quién – Carlos Cañeque Solá
3 Matando dinosaurios con tirachinas – Pedro Maestre

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Every No. 1 Japanese novel in "Kono Mystery ga Sugoi!" (1988–2026 editions)

1 『新宿鮫』大沢在昌
2 『伝説なき地』船戸与一
3 『ミステリーズ』山口雅也

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Publishers Weekly's 10 best books of 2017

1 Ants Among Elephants — Sujatha Gidla
2 White Tears — Hari Kunzru
3 The Apparitionists — Peter Manseau

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All winners of the Russian Booker Prize (1992–2017)

1 “Line of Fate, or Milashevich’s Chest” - Mark Kharitonov (1992)
2 “A table covered with cloth and with a decanter in the middle” - Vladimir Makanin (1993)
3 “Matisse” - Alexander Ilichevsky (2007)

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Barack Obama's favourite books of 2020

1 Homeland Elegies — Ayad Akhtar
2 Jack — Marilynne Robinson
3 Caste — Isabel Wilkerson

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Barack Obama's favourite books of 2025

1 Paper Girl — Beth Macy
2 Flashlight — Susan Choi
3 We the People — Jill Lepore

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The best books of 2023 according to Folha de S.Paulo

1 The Desert and Its Seed, Jorge Barón Biza
2 The Racial Contract, Charles W. Mills
3 Orlando Furioso, volume II, Ludovico Ariosto

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The most important German-language novels of the 20th century (Literaturhaus München poll, 1999)

1 The Trial – Franz Kafka
2 Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
3 The Tin Drum – Günter Grass

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Every No. 1 foreign novel in "Kono Mystery ga Sugoi!" (1988–2026 editions)

1 『夢果つる街』トレヴェニアン
2 『骨と沈黙』レジナルド・ヒル
3 『ストーン・シティ』ミッチェル・スミス

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The best historical novels of all time

1 The Feast of the Goat
2 The Name of the Rose
3 War and Peace

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Every winner of Sweden's August Prize for fiction (1989–2025)

1 Tecknens rike – Cecilia Lindqvist
2 De sotarna! De sotarna! – Lars Ahlin
3 Händelser vid vatten – Kerstin Ekman

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The New York Times' 10 best books of 2024

1 All Fours — Miranda July
2 James — Percival Everett
3 You Dreamed of Empires — Álvaro Enrigue

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The best Jules Verne novels

1 In Search of the Castaways
2 Robur the Conqueror
3 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

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Barack Obama's summer reading list 2025

1 Rosarita — Anita Desai
2 Mark Twain — Ron Chernow
3 The Book of Records — Madeleine Thien

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