Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyOut of the Silent Planet by C.S. LewisAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. LovecraftLost Horizon by James HiltonLast and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Classic Science Fiction - 1930-1939
102 books — 116 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferSarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
WWII Historic Fiction
1,492 books — 1,572 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsDune by Frank Patrick Herbert1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Science Fiction
3,805 books — 7,408 voters
A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaThe Buried Giant by Kazuo IshiguroThe Book of Strange New Things by Michel FaberOur Souls at Night by Kent HarufLila by Marilynne Robinson
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2015
143 books — 357 voters

Crush by Richard SikenLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanThe Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'HaraIf Not, Winter by SapphoHowl by Allen Ginsberg
Gay/Queer Poetry
288 books — 122 voters

Crush by Richard SikenDiving Into the Wreck by Adrienne RichThe Selected Poems by Federico García LorcaDon't Call Us Dead by Danez SmithMadness by Sam Sax
Best LGBT Poetry
166 books — 55 voters

A Room of One's Own by Virginia WoolfThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxWhy I Write by George OrwellBooks v. Cigarettes by George OrwellThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Penguin Great Ideas
121 books — 99 voters
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max HorkheimerGender Trouble by Judith ButlerPostmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric JamesonHistory and Class Consciousness by György LukácsImagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
Mapping Critical Theory
107 books — 41 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
Best/Favorite Books of Essays
554 books — 248 voters
Hate List by Jennifer  BrownNineteen Minutes by Jodi PicoultWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel ShriverThis Is Where It Ends by Marieke NijkampGive a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
School Shooting Fiction
99 books — 356 voters


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