10 Most Criminally Underrated Books

Kafka was a total stalker. His missives here are riveting and inadvertently hilarious.

In this Manhattan comedy of manners, Colwin wrings magic from ordinary lives.

Sharply serrated portraits of dysfunction in an aristocratic British family so depraved, they make the Lannisters look like the Brady Bunch.

An off-the-charts brilliant book that deconstructs the Beatles song by song.

A heart-stopping novel about a mother lost in the woods with her 1-year-old. It's insanity that no one's made a movie out of this.

He's an indie musician — frontman for the Silver Jews — and an indie poet, too, with offbeat verse that snaps and sparks with life.

A seriously moving novel about an Australian girl who can't find her imaginary friends.

All of Willett's novels are sardonic and bitingly funny, but this one — about twin sisters, relationships, and books — is the best.

Why is every sentence in this odd little book a question? And how did Powell make it a genuinely great read?

This graphic memoir — a chronicle of Forney's bipolar disorder — vividly explores the line between creativity and mental illness.