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Antwerp
Roberto Bolaño
published: 2002, read: 3/20/26
119 pages, genre: Fiction
rating: 7.25/10, normalized: 6.944/10
-0.003σ worse than average
0.025σ or 0.027/10 better than average in Fiction genre
-0.601σ or -0.255/10 worse than average by Roberto Bolaño
One of his earlier works, composed when he was 27 (1980) but not published until 2002.
Its vintage Bolaño featuring crime, depravity, sex, sex & depravity, poetry, etc. It's like a fugue'd snapshot of Savage Detectives and 2666. Cool to see that those magnum opi where brewing around his head early on, but would not be fully realized till later in his life
What poems lack is characters who lie in wait for the reader
In isolation, I will say that it's not really better than e.g. Uxa.gov – but I think I favor Bolaño's fragmented shocking-imagery better than Butler's because at least Bolaño is building towards something, even if not for decades to come whereas Butler's is just a flash in the pan (I will eat my words if/when Blake Butler publishes anything approaching the significance of 2666, otherwise it's not fair of me to rate books in the context of an author's broader work. Jk that's totally valid, but for this book in particular, it would be bad if I had not read anything else by this author)
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| 3/20/26 | Roberto Bolaño | Antwerp | 119 | 2002 | Fiction | 7.250 | 6.944 | ||
| 5/5/26 | Brian Evenson | Altmann's Tongue | 278 | 1994 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | vileshort story(s) | |
| 4/2/26 | Roberto Bolaño | Posthumous Stories | 160 | 2025 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | short story(s) | |
| 3/25/26 | Roberto Bolaño | Nazi Literature in the Americas | 237 | 1996 | Fiction | 8.250 | 8.056 | short story(s) | |
| 3/22/26 | Roberto Bolaño | The Insufferable Gaucho | 164 | 2003 | Fiction | 7.625 | 7.361 | short story(s) | |
| 1/19/26 | Raymond Carver | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | 176 | 1981 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | vileshort story(s) | |
| 10/2/25 | Brett Easton Ellis | The Informers | 240 | 1994 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | vileshort story(s) | |
| 9/16/25 | David Foster Wallace | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | 288 | 1999 | Fiction | 8.633 | 8.481 | vileshort story(s) | |
| 5/27/25 | Hubert Selby Jr. | Last Exit to Brooklyn | 320 | 1964 | Fiction | 8.708 | 8.565 | vileshort story(s) | King |
| 6/26/24 | Various | American Short Fiction Vol. 9, Issue 33 | 128 | 2006 | Fiction | 7.625 | 7.361 | vileshort story(s) | |
| 4/9/24 | Roberto Bolaño | 2666: A Novel | 912 | 2004 | Fiction | 8.150 | 7.944 | vile | roon |
| 4/16/25 | Blake Butler | Uxa.Gov | 356 | 2024 | Horror | 4.500 | 3.889 | vilevile vignettes | |
| 10/6/26 | Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance | 624 | 1995 | Fiction | 7.650 | 7.389 | vile | Kayla |
| 8/4/26 | Ray Bradbury | There Will Come Soft Rains | 5 | 1950 | Fiction | 6.750 | 6.389 | short story(s) | |
| 3/31/26 | Roberto Bolaño | The Return | 208 | 2010 | Fiction | 7.115 | 6.795 | ||
| 3/27/26 | Roberto Bolaño | The Third Reich | 277 | 1989 | Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | ||
| 3/23/26 | Roberto Bolaño | The Skating Rink | 192 | 1993 | Fiction | 7.350 | 7.056 | ||
| 3/21/26 | Roberto Bolaño | A Little Lumpen Novelita | 128 | 2002 | Fiction | 7.550 | 7.278 | ||
| 3/3/26 | Stefan Zweig | Chess | 84 | 1942 | Fiction | 8.500 | 8.333 | short story(s) | |
| 1/30/26 | William H. Gass | The Tunnel | 652 | 1995 | Fiction | 8.550 | 8.389 | vile | Ben Roth |
| 11/27/25 | Vladimir Sorokin | Their Four Hearts | 204 | 1994 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | vile | |
| 10/12/25 | László Krasznahorkai | Sátántangó | 333 | 1985 | Fiction | 7.850 | 7.611 | vile | |
| 8/25/25 | Roberto Bolaño | Amulet | 154 | 1999 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | ||
| 8/7/25 | Roberto Bolaño | Monsieur Pain | 134 | 1999 | Fiction | 8.100 | 7.889 | ||
| 8/5/25 | Roberto Bolaño | By Night in Chile | 118 | 2000 | Fiction | 7.250 | 6.944 | ||
| 8/3/25 | Roberto Bolaño | The Savage Detectives | 656 | 1998 | Fiction | 7.167 | 6.852 | Dasha | |
| 10/30/24 | David Foster Wallace | Infinite Jest | 1451 | 1996 | Fiction | 10.000 | 10.000 | vile | |
| 10/25/24 | Various | 40 x 40 | 394 | 2003 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | short story(s) | |
| 10/13/24 | Italo Calvino | Invisible Cities | 179 | 1972 | Fiction | 5.500 | 5.000 | short story(s) | |
| 9/30/24 | Jorge Luis Borges | The Zahir | 13 | 1949 | Fiction | 7.250 | 6.944 | short story(s) | |
| 9/25/24 | Franz Kafka | In the Penal Colony | 33 | 1919 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | short story(s) | |
| 9/25/24 | Ray Bradbury | The Veldt | 13 | 1950 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | short story(s) | |
| 9/9/24 | Thomas Pynchon | V. | 545 | 1963 | Fiction | 7.221 | 6.912 | vile | |
| 6/28/24 | Te-Ping Chen | The Land of Big Numbers | 236 | 2021 | Fiction | 5.625 | 5.139 | short story(s) | |
| 6/6/24 | Jorge Luis Borges | Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius | 16 | 1940 | Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | short story(s) | Chabon |
| 5/30/24 | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | 336 | 1955 | Fiction | 8.213 | 8.014 | vile | |
| 2/19/24 | Ray Bradbury | Mars is Heaven | 12 | 1948 | Fiction | 8.000 | 7.778 | short story(s) | |
| 7/25/22 | Ray Bradbury | The Illustrated Man | 256 | 1969 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | short story(s) | |
| 2/15/17 | Frank O'Connor | The Drunkard | 6 | 1948 | Fiction | 8.000 | 7.778 | short story(s) | |
| 9/11/14 | Guy De Maupassant | The Prisoners | 24 | 1880 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | short story(s) | |
| 6/26/26 | William T. Vollmann | Europe Central | 832 | 2005 | Historical Fiction | 8.550 | 8.389 | vile | |
| 1/5/26 | Brian Evenson | A Collapse of Horses | 220 | 2016 | Horror | 6.750 | 6.389 | short story(s) | Ben Roth |
| 12/31/25 | Cixin Liu | To Hold Up the Sky | 336 | 2021 | Sci-Fi | 6.700 | 6.333 | short story(s) | |
| 1/13/25 | qntm | Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories | 107 | 2022 | Sci-Fi | 7.375 | 7.083 | short story(s) | |
| 1/9/25 | Brett Easton Ellis | American Psycho | 399 | 1991 | Horror | 7.750 | 7.500 | vile | |
| 1/7/25 | William Peter Blatty | The Exorcist | 340 | 1971 | Horror | 8.000 | 7.778 | vile | Dad |
| 1/3/25 | Isaac Asimov | Nightfall and Other Stories | 352 | 1969 | Sci-Fi | 6.737 | 6.374 | short story(s) | |
| 9/29/24 | Joe Hill | Heart Shaped Box | 402 | 2000 | Horror | 6.750 | 6.389 | vile | |
| 9/6/24 | Greg Egan | You and Whose Army? | 34 | 1998 | Sci-Fi | 6.750 | 6.389 | short story(s) | |
| 9/5/24 | Greg Egan | Planck Dive | 23 | 1998 | Sci-Fi | 9.250 | 9.167 | short story(s) | |
| 8/29/24 | José Saramago | Blindness | 352 | 1995 | Sci-Fi | 7.000 | 6.667 | vile | |
| 8/28/24 | Margaret Atwood | Oryx and Crake MaddAddam (1) | 400 | 2003 | Sci-Fi | 6.000 | 5.556 | vile | Steg |
| 8/25/24 | George R.R. Martin | A Dance with Dragons A Song of Ice and Fire (5) | 1056 | 2011 | Fantasy | 7.500 | 7.222 | vile | |
| 7/28/24 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Four Ways to Forgiveness Hainish Cycle (7) | 320 | 1995 | Sci-Fi | 5.500 | 5.000 | vile | |
| 6/10/24 | M. R. James | Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad | 25 | 1904 | Horror | 6.750 | 6.389 | short story(s) | Chabon |
| 6/7/24 | Gershom Scholem | The Golem of Prague & The Golem of Rehovoth | 8 | 1965 | Essays | 7.500 | 7.222 | short story(s) | Chabon |
| 5/12/24 | Italo Calvino | Cosmicomics | 179 | 1965 | Sci-Fi | 7.029 | 6.699 | short story(s) | Will Liff. |
| 7/6/23 | Dan Simmons | Carrion Comfort | 802 | 1989 | Horror | 8.563 | 8.403 | vile | |
| 6/18/23 | Various | Obsolescence | 360 | 2023 | Sci-Fi | 6.000 | 5.556 | short story(s) | |
| 1/29/23 | George Saunders | Escape from Spiderhead | 10 | 2010 | Sci-Fi | 7.750 | 7.500 | short story(s) | |
| 1/11/23 | Ted Chiang | Exhalation | 368 | 2019 | Sci-Fi | 7.500 | 7.222 | short story(s) | |
| 12/12/22 | Stephen King | Skeleton Crew | 512 | 1985 | Horror | 8.000 | 7.778 | short story(s) | |
| 6/23/22 | Stephen King | If It Bleeds | 448 | 2020 | Horror | 6.500 | 6.111 | short story(s) | |
| 4/9/19 | Stephen King | Full Dark, No Stars | 368 | 2010 | Horror | 8.000 | 7.778 | vile | Dad |
| 3/20/17 | David Ives | All in the Timing: Sure Thing | 13 | 1994 | Screenplay | 7.750 | 7.500 | short story(s) | |
| 10/9/16 | Harlan Ellison | I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream | 163 | 1967 | Horror | 7.250 | 6.944 | short story(s) | |
| 10/9/16 | Charlotte Stetson | The Yellow Wallpaper | 29 | 1892 | Horror | 6.500 | 6.111 | short story(s) | |
| 11/13/26 | Donna Tartt | The Secret History | 559 | 1992 | Fiction | 8.000 | 7.778 | Kayla | |
| 11/13/26 | Michel Houellebecq | Serotonin | 352 | 2019 | Fiction | 7.250 | 6.944 | ||
| 10/22/26 | Yu Miri | Tokyo Ueno Station | 192 | 2021 | Fiction | 6.000 | 5.556 | ||
| 10/21/26 | Don DeLillo | Mao II | 256 | 1992 | Fiction | 8.000 | 7.778 | ||
| 10/16/26 | Mikhail Lermontov | A Hero of Our Time | 208 | 1840 | Fiction | 7.450 | 7.167 | Zack B. | |
| 10/12/26 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | White Nights | 96 | 1848 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | Taylor R. | |
| 10/4/26 | Don DeLillo | Pafko at the Wall | 96 | 2001 | Fiction | 7.250 | 6.944 | ||
| 9/25/26 | William Gaddis | Carpenter's Gothic | 288 | 1985 | Fiction | 8.500 | 8.333 | ||
| 9/24/26 | Osamu Dazai | No Longer Human | 177 | 1948 | Fiction | 7.650 | 7.389 | ||
| 9/16/26 | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | 608 | 1851 | Fiction | 8.450 | 8.278 | Howarddd | |
| 9/7/26 | Don DeLillo | White Noise | 320 | 1985 | Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | Ben Roth | |
| 9/5/26 | John Williams | Nothing but the Night | 144 | 1948 | Fiction | 7.350 | 7.056 | ||
| 8/26/26 | Stefan Zweig | Beware of Pity | 392 | 1939 | Fiction | 7.850 | 7.611 | ||
| 8/18/26 | Miroslav Krleža | On the Edge of Reason | 192 | 1938 | Fiction | 7.850 | 7.611 | ||
| 8/13/26 | Cormac McCarthy | Cities of the Plain The Border Trilogy (3) | 292 | 1998 | Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | ||
| 8/10/26 | Cormac McCarthy | The Crossing The Border Trilogy (2) | 426 | 1994 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | ||
| 8/6/26 | Cormac McCarthy | All the Pretty Horses The Border Trilogy (1) | 302 | 1992 | Fiction | 7.625 | 7.361 | ||
| 7/31/26 | Mikhail Bulgakov | Heart of a Dog | 123 | 1968 | Fiction | 7.350 | 7.056 | Zack B. | |
| 7/29/26 | Min Jin Lee | Pachinko | 544 | 2017 | Fiction | 6.583 | 6.204 | ||
| 7/20/26 | Thomas Mann | The Magic Mountain | 706 | 1924 | Fiction | 7.300 | 7.000 | Scott | |
| 6/28/26 | Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | 226 | 1862 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | Scott | |
| 6/6/26 | Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita | 450 | 1967 | Fiction | 7.650 | 7.389 | ||
| 5/1/26 | Laura Knowlin | if only i had told her | 391 | 2024 | Fiction | 6.033 | 5.593 | ||
| 4/27/26 | Jean Raspail | The Camp of the Saints | 356 | 1973 | Fiction | 5.500 | 5.000 | ||
| 4/22/26 | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | 209 | 1927 | Fiction | 7.350 | 7.056 | Ben Roth | |
| 4/19/26 | Benjamín Labatut | When We Cease to Understand the World | 192 | 2021 | Fiction | 8.000 | 7.778 | ||
| 4/18/26 | László Krasznahorkai | Chasing Homer | 96 | 2019 | Fiction | 6.650 | 6.278 | ||
| 4/17/26 | Cormac McCarthy | No Country for Old Men | 320 | 2005 | Fiction | 8.250 | 8.056 | ||
| 4/13/26 | Cormac McCarthy | Blood Meridian | 349 | 1985 | Fiction | 8.650 | 8.500 | ||
| 4/11/26 | Patrick White | Voss | 442 | 1957 | Fiction | 7.650 | 7.389 | ||
| 4/5/26 | John Williams | Augustus | 336 | 1971 | Fiction | 8.250 | 8.056 | ||
| 4/5/26 | Joseph Andras | Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us | 144 | 2021 | Fiction | 8.000 | 7.778 | ||
| 4/2/26 | Sophocles | Oedipus Rex | 94 | -429 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | ||
| 4/1/26 | Makenna Goodman | Helen of Nowhere | 160 | 2025 | Fiction | 7.350 | 7.056 | ||
| 3/19/26 | David Foster Wallace | The Broom of the System | 467 | 1987 | Fiction | 7.875 | 7.639 | ||
| 3/14/26 | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | 736 | 2023 | Fiction | 7.125 | 6.806 | ||
| 3/4/26 | André Gide | The Immoralist | 154 | 1902 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | Ben Roth | |
| 2/28/26 | Lucy Ellmann | Ducks, Newburyport | 1022 | 2019 | Fiction | 2.000 | 1.111 | ||
| 2/16/26 | Natsuo Kirino | Out | 416 | 1992 | Fiction | 5.000 | 4.444 | ||
| 1/25/26 | Jon Fosse | A New Name Septology (3) | 228 | 2021 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | ||
| 1/25/26 | Jacqueline Harpman | I Who Have Never Known Men | 184 | 1995 | Fiction | 6.850 | 6.500 | Jessika | |
| 1/24/26 | Jon Fosse | The Other Name Septology (1) | 351 | 2019 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | ||
| 1/24/26 | Jon Fosse | I is Another Septology (2) | 271 | 2020 | Fiction | 6.833 | 6.481 | ||
| 1/20/26 | John Williams | Butcher's Crossing | 274 | 1960 | Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | ||
| 1/18/26 | Sally Rooney | Beautiful World, Where Are You | 368 | 2021 | Fiction | 6.250 | 5.833 | Kayla | |
| 1/1/26 | Juan Rulfo | Pedro Páramo | 144 | 1955 | Fiction | 7.850 | 7.611 | ||
| 12/26/25 | Boris and Arkady Strugatsky | One Billion Years to the End of the World | 176 | 1977 | Fiction | 7.450 | 7.167 | ||
| 12/23/25 | Sally Rooney | Intermezzo | 448 | 2024 | Fiction | 7.850 | 7.611 | ||
| 11/10/25 | David Markson | Wittgenstein's Mistress | 248 | 1988 | Fiction | 8.250 | 8.056 | Dasha | |
| 10/22/25 | Milan Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 314 | 1984 | Fiction | 8.200 | 8.000 | Ben Roth | |
| 10/15/25 | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | Guignol's Band | 287 | 1944 | Fiction | 6.000 | 5.556 | ||
| 10/9/25 | Vigdis Hjorth | Will and Testament | 336 | 2016 | Fiction | 8.000 | 7.778 | ||
| 9/29/25 | John Williams | Stoner | 278 | 1965 | Fiction | 8.250 | 8.056 | ||
| 9/18/25 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Poor Folk | 288 | 1846 | Fiction | 6.750 | 6.389 | Tommy A. | |
| 9/4/25 | Sue Monk Kidd | The Book of Longings | 432 | 2020 | Fiction | 6.350 | 5.944 | ||
| 8/9/25 | Toni Morrison | Song of Solomon | 338 | 1977 | Fiction | 7.350 | 7.056 | Ben Roth | |
| 8/6/25 | Denis Johnson | Train Dreams | 116 | 2002 | Fiction | 7.450 | 7.167 | Ben Roth | |
| 8/6/25 | Christina Brooke-Rose | Amalgamemnon | 152 | 1984 | Fiction | 7.250 | 6.944 | Dasha | |
| 8/5/25 | Thomas Pynchon | The Crying of Lot 49 | 152 | 1965 | Fiction | 8.750 | 8.611 | Preston | |
| 7/31/25 | William Faulkner | As I Lay Dying | 288 | 1930 | Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | Dasha | |
| 7/14/25 | Mark Z. Danielewski | The Fifty Year Sword | 280 | 2005 | Fiction | 5.500 | 5.000 | ||
| 7/11/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | The Enchanter | 144 | 1986 | Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | ||
| 7/10/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | Look at the Harlequins! | 224 | 1974 | Fiction | 8.286 | 8.095 | ||
| 7/7/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | Nabokov's Dozen | 214 | 1958 | Fiction | 6.635 | 6.261 | ||
| 7/7/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | Transparent Things | 127 | 1972 | Fiction | 8.250 | 8.056 | ||
| 7/4/25 | Dino Buzzati | The Tartar Steppe | 198 | 1940 | Fiction | 7.650 | 7.389 | Ben Roth | |
| 6/24/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle | 500 | 1969 | Fiction | 6.550 | 6.167 | ||
| 6/19/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | Pnin | 208 | 1957 | Fiction | 7.650 | 7.389 | ||
| 6/9/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | Bend Sinister | 272 | 1947 | Fiction | 7.250 | 6.944 | ||
| 6/7/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | The Gift | 384 | 1938 | Fiction | 6.250 | 5.833 | ||
| 6/3/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | Invitation to a Beheading | 240 | 1936 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | ||
| 5/31/25 | Gillian Flynn | Sharp Objects | 252 | 2006 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | ||
| 5/31/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | Laughter in the Dark | 304 | 1933 | Fiction | 7.350 | 7.056 | ||
| 5/24/25 | Herman Melville | Bartleby the Scrivener | 74 | 1853 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | Ben Roth | |
| 5/9/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | King, Queen, Knave | 272 | 1928 | Fiction | 7.600 | 7.333 | ||
| 5/9/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | The Eye | 128 | 1930 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | ||
| 5/8/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | Mary | 144 | 1926 | Fiction | 7.250 | 6.944 | ||
| 4/20/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | Glory | 224 | 1932 | Fiction | 6.750 | 6.389 | ||
| 4/19/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | Despair | 240 | 1934 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | ||
| 4/18/25 | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | 432 | 1811 | Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | Emma | |
| 4/18/25 | Vladimir Nabokov | The Luzhin Defense | 280 | 1930 | Fiction | 7.850 | 7.611 | ||
| 4/15/25 | David Foster Wallace | The Pale King | 636 | 2011 | Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | ||
| 4/14/25 | Elisa Shua Dusapin | The Pachinko Parlor | 164 | 2018 | Fiction | 7.850 | 7.611 | ||
| 2/7/25 | James Joyce | Ulysses | 732 | 1920 | Fiction | 8.181 | 7.978 | ||
| 1/30/25 | Leo Tolstoy | The Death of Ivan Ilyich | 128 | 1886 | Fiction | 6.750 | 6.389 | King | |
| 1/29/25 | Hubert Selby Jr. | Requiem for a Dream | 288 | 1978 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | ||
| 1/21/25 | Kaveh Akbar | Martyr! | 352 | 2024 | Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | Tommy A. | |
| 1/14/25 | James Baldwin | Go Tell it on the Mountain | 272 | 1952 | Fiction | 8.000 | 7.778 | ||
| 1/12/25 | James Baldwin | If Beale Street Could Talk | 197 | 1974 | Fiction | 6.250 | 5.833 | ||
| 1/10/25 | James Baldwin | Giovanni's Room | 159 | 1956 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | ||
| 1/10/25 | Anthony Burgess | A Clockwork Orange | 243 | 1962 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | ||
| 1/4/25 | Khaled Hosseini | Kite Runner | 371 | 2003 | Fiction | 6.750 | 6.389 | ||
| 12/26/24 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Notes from Underground | 168 | 1864 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | Tommy A. | |
| 12/10/24 | Neal Stephenson | Zodiac | 316 | 1988 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | ||
| 11/6/24 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Gambler | 191 | 1866 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | ||
| 11/5/24 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Double | 144 | 1846 | Fiction | 6.250 | 5.833 | ||
| 10/25/24 | Vladimir Nabokov | The Real Life of Sebastian Knight | 236 | 1941 | Fiction | 7.150 | 6.833 | ||
| 10/20/24 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Idiot | 486 | 1869 | Fiction | 7.125 | 6.806 | Tommy A. | |
| 10/18/24 | John Kennedy Toole | A Confederacy of Dunces | 405 | 1980 | Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | Tommy A. | |
| 10/1/24 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | 527 | 1866 | Fiction | 7.286 | 6.984 | Tommy A. | |
| 9/26/24 | Haruki Murakami | Kafka on the Shore | 505 | 2002 | Fiction | 5.875 | 5.417 | ||
| 9/19/24 | William Faulkner | Light in August | 498 | 1932 | Fiction | 7.350 | 7.056 | ||
| 8/14/24 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | 898 | 1880 | Fiction | 8.654 | 8.504 | Tommy A. | |
| 8/5/24 | Brian O'Raleigh | Passage to Inis Mór | 305 | 2020 | Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | Grandpa | |
| 6/20/24 | James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 299 | 1916 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | ||
| 6/7/24 | Philip Roth | Everyman | 193 | 2006 | Fiction | 4.500 | 3.889 | ||
| 6/3/24 | Cormac McCarthy | The Road | 257 | 2006 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | Chabon | |
| 5/17/24 | Neil Gaiman | American Gods | 518 | 2001 | Fiction | 5.125 | 4.583 | Nick W. | |
| 3/21/24 | John Steinbeck | East of Eden | 601 | 1952 | Fiction | 8.688 | 8.542 | Jack H. | |
| 9/1/23 | Máirtín Ó Cadhain | Graveyard Clay | 328 | 1949 | Fiction | 6.750 | 6.389 | ||
| 12/13/22 | Adam Silvera | They Both Die at the End | 243 | 2017 | Fiction | 2.000 | 1.111 | ||
| 6/13/22 | Stephen King | The Institute | 576 | 2019 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | ||
| 6/12/19 | Stephen King | The Stand | 1153 | 1978 | Fiction | 8.500 | 8.333 | Dad | |
| 4/20/18 | Anthony Powell | The Acceptance World A Dance to the Music of Time (3) | 353 | 1955 | Fiction | 6.750 | 6.389 | Steg | |
| 4/17/18 | Anthony Powell | A Buyer's Market A Dance to the Music of Time (2) | 292 | 1952 | Fiction | 6.750 | 6.389 | Steg | |
| 4/15/18 | Anthony Powell | A Question of Upbringing A Dance to the Music of Time (1) | 230 | 1951 | Fiction | 6.750 | 6.389 | Steg | |
| 3/10/18 | Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Dalloway | 224 | 1925 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | Steg | |
| 11/12/17 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | 304 | 2005 | Fiction | 4.000 | 3.333 | ||
| 10/15/17 | William Golding | Lord of the Flies | 189 | 1954 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | ||
| 9/1/17 | Hunter S. Thompson | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | 225 | 1971 | Fiction | 6.000 | 5.556 | Alex W. | |
| 8/12/17 | Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse Five | 190 | 1969 | Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | Sean G. | |
| 6/21/17 | Fredrik Backman | And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer | 96 | 2016 | Fiction | 9.000 | 8.889 | Mom | |
| 5/27/17 | Franz Kafka | The Trial | 150 | 1925 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | ||
| 10/20/16 | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | 544 | 1859 | Fiction | 6.750 | 6.389 | ||
| 10/10/16 | William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury | 326 | 1927 | Fiction | 8.250 | 8.056 | Steg | |
| 5/20/16 | J.D. Salinger | Catcher in the Rye | 232 | 1951 | Fiction | 3.000 | 2.222 | ||
| 5/20/16 | Kurt Vonengut | Timequake | 278 | 2011 | Fiction | 8.250 | 8.056 | Sean G. | |
| 3/15/13 | Richard Connell | The Most Dangerous Game | 18 | 1924 | Fiction | 7.250 | 6.944 | Mom |