Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Quick Reads
1,085 books — 718 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,266 books — 8,162 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
598 books — 2,063 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
761 books — 1,835 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFight Club by Chuck PalahniukSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Postmodern cult classics
89 books — 102 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,033 books — 898 voters
The Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwinالقرآن الكريم by اللهThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Most Influential Books
1,496 books — 5,302 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,838 books — 22,430 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins1984 by George OrwellThe Giver by Lois LowryDivergent by Veronica RothBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,005 books — 26,675 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,874 books — 49,839 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,694 books — 124,222 voters