Algorithms to Live By by Brian  ChristianThe Gene by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Undoing Project by Michael   LewisThe Inevitable by Kevin KellyWeapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
MIT technology review
23 books — 33 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Notable Novels by Italian Authors
347 books — 234 voters
You Can't Buy Love Like That by Carol E. AndersonCompulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne RichLesbian Ethics by Sarah Lucia HoaglandThe Straight Mind by Monique WittigCall Me Lesbian by Julia Penelope
Lesbian-Feminist Nonfiction
66 books — 30 voters

Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'ConnorCollected Stories by Raymond CarverPoetry and Prose by Walt WhitmanEdgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan PoeAutobiographies by Frederick Douglass
Library of America
224 books — 49 voters
Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertUlysses by James JoyceAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAlice in Wonderland by Jane Carruth
Go-To Novels
180 books — 16 voters

Stoner by John  WilliamsChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 891 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Stranger by Albert Camus
David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books
100 books — 311 voters

The Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Aeneid by VirgilThe Republic by PlatoThe Histories by Herodotus
Classical World Reading List
115 books — 69 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 — 2,044 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Everyman's Library 100 Essentials
103 books — 151 voters


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