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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
522 books — 2,300 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueSteppenwolf by Hermann HessePerfume by Patrick Süskind
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
988 books — 964 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,340 books — 1,502 voters
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesIn Watermelon Sugar by Richard BrautiganThe Moviegoer by Walker PercyGiovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
After DFW's "Eclectic/Obscure Fictions for Writers" Syllabus
79 books — 47 voters

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinAnarchism and Other Essays by Emma GoldmanV for Vendetta by Alan MooreChomsky On Anarchism by Noam ChomskyThe Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
Anarchist books
478 books — 380 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsDune by Frank Herbert1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Science Fiction
3,832 books — 7,617 voters

Evolving Ourselves by Juan EnríquezMisbehaving by Richard H. ThalerMachines of Loving Grace by John MarkoffMindware by Richard E. NisbettData and Goliath by Bruce Schneier
EDGE.org Summer Reading 2015
25 books — 6 voters
Rise of the Robots by Martin FordThe Second Machine Age by Erik BrynjolfssonThe Singularity is Near by Ray KurzweilHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariLife 3.0 by Max Tegmark
Automation & Technological Unemployment
69 books — 67 voters

Grass by Sheri S. TepperOn Destiny by Aileen ErinThe Rookie by Scott SiglerLight Bringer by Pierce BrownThe Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey
Most Under-rated Science Fiction
2,146 books — 2,330 voters
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanLongitude by Dava Sobel
Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize
128 books — 73 voters


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