1984 by George OrwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenAnimal Farm by George Orwell
The Best Social Studies Library List
235 books — 174 voters
The Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwinالقرآن الكريم by AnonymousThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,283 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Collection Of Essays by George OrwellThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusArguably by Christopher Hitchens
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554 books — 248 voters
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganCosmos by Carl SaganBad Science by Ben GoldacreWhy People Believe Weird Things by Michael ShermerThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
A Skeptic's Library
170 books — 127 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondMath Jokes by Ralph LaneThe Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. FeynmanThe Lessons of History by Will DurantThe Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Polymath's Library
257 books — 69 voters
The Signal and the Noise by Nate SilverThe Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor HastieMoneyball by Michael   LewisThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. TufteAn Introduction to Statistical Learning by Gareth James
Data Science - Learning About Data
133 books — 121 voters