Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinThe Study of Language by George YuleMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Best Books about Linguistics
264 books — 229 voters
Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanLife by Keith RichardsOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,549 books — 1,453 voters

Bel Canto by Ann PatchettCloud Atlas by David  MitchellAmadeus by Peter ShafferDoctor Faustus by Thomas MannThe Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Classical Music themes in Literature
173 books — 120 voters

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterFermat's Enigma by Simon SinghFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottThe Code Book by Simon SinghZero by Charles Seife
Best Books About Mathematics
468 books — 683 voters

The Martian by Andy WeirRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsDune by Frank HerbertFoundation by Isaac AsimovRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
best hard science fiction
453 books — 880 voters

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsCatch-22 by Joseph HellerGood Omens by Terry PratchettThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Funniest Novels of All Time
1,459 books — 2,339 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCloud Atlas by David  MitchellPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rabelais' Codpiece
134 books — 147 voters