Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Penguin Classics
595 books — 316 voters

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanWhite Nights by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyThe Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Brontë
Penguin Little Black Classics
127 books — 212 voters
Where the Wild Things Were by William StolzenburgWith A Dying Breath by Tony WalkdenA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldFour Fish by Paul   GreenbergJaguar by Alan Rabinowitz
Conservation and Animal Science
154 books — 54 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsCosmos by Carl SaganGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best General Science Books
592 books — 514 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George Orwell
Works of Pure Genius
768 books — 694 voters

Hyperion by Dan SimmonsDune by Frank HerbertEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardFoundation by Isaac AsimovLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Best Space Opera
1,150 books — 1,981 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Medicine and Literature
2,048 books — 2,288 voters