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Redshirts
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
House of Leaves
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Yellowface
Pale Fire
Breakfast of Champions
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
The Final Girl Support Group
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
Cloud Atlas
The Princess Bride
Xenocide by Orson Scott CardThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigYou Slay Me by Katie MacAlisterThe Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Good Books that Begin with X, Y, Z
349 books — 140 voters
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanAlexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith ViorstI'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
Books with Really Long Titles
1,679 books — 340 voters

The Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Valley of Unknowing by Philip SingtonIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Books within Books
78 books — 71 voters
Inkheart by Cornelia FunkeThief of Lies by Brenda DrakeThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe Neverending Story by Michael EndeInkspell by Cornelia Funke
Book-Jumping or Book-Travelling
150 books — 92 voters

Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam MansbachThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsAll My Friends Are Dead by Avery MonsenAnother Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick FlynnF U, Penguin by Matthew Gasteier
Books that just have cool titles
361 books — 93 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingDeath on the Nile by Agatha ChristieThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonDeath of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Spectral Titles
341 books — 56 voters

Nicholas Carr
One of the curiosities of the early twenty-first century is the way so much power over social relations came into the hands of young men with more interest in numbers than in people.
Nicholas Carr, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

Thornton Wilder
Y'know — Babylon once had two million people in it, and all we know about 'em is the names of the kings and some copies of wheat contracts . . . and contracts for the sale of slaves. Yet every night all those families sat down to supper, and the father came home from his work, and the smoke went up the chimney,— same as here. And even in Greece and Rome, all we know about the real life of the people is what we can piece together out of the joking poems and the comedies they wrote for the theatre ...more
Thornton Wilder, Our Town

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