The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,310 books — 1,561 voters
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonBefore Familiar Woods by Ian PisarcikWinter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellThe Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
Grit Lit
105 books — 76 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,997 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyBleak House by Charles DickensMiddlemarch by George EliotAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLes Misérables by Victor Hugo
Bookish 2011 Floor Joist Challenge
93 books — 48 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 — 5,285 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,043 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,277 voters