All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Regeneration Trilogy by Pat BarkerBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayFall of Giants by Ken Follett
Best World War I Fiction
152 books — 184 voters
1984 by George OrwellFight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Let's Shake It Up A Bit
971 books — 583 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Southern Gothic Literature
343 books — 507 voters
Bossypants by Tina FeyIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingYes Please by Amy PoehlerBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahDad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
Books by Comics
200 books — 222 voters

Minima Moralia by Theodor W. AdornoNegative Dialectics by Theodor W. AdornoCivilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund FreudPostmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric JamesonOne-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
Critical Theory
83 books — 36 voters
The Stand by Stephen  KingThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins1984 by George OrwellWorld War Z by Max Brooks
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,285 books — 3,449 voters

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainThe Forager Chefs Club by Rita Mace WalstonThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanGarlic and Sapphires by Ruth ReichlTender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
Fabulous Reads for Foodies
621 books — 180 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of New York City
1,712 books — 1,282 voters

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,199 books — 2,520 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Best Historical Fiction
7,818 books — 26,126 voters


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