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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
255 books — 224 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,122 books — 1,818 voters

A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBrideHow to be Both by Ali SmithSpeedboat by Renata AdlerThe Mezzanine by Nicholson BakerHopscotch by Julio Cortázar
10 Experimental Novels That Are Worth the Effort
10 books — 6 voters
32 Candles by Ernessa T. CarterThe Coldest Winter Ever by Sister SouljahTryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made by Virginia DeBerryFlyy Girl by Omar TyreeThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Best Black/African American Chicklit
433 books — 403 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiIce by Anna KavanNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonUlysses by James Joyce
Avant Garde books
114 books — 71 voters
Middlemarch by George EliotWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelMiss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young
Large Experimental Books by Women
87 books — 71 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonCitizen by Claudia RankineCane by Jean ToomerJazz by Toni Morrison
WHERE IS OUR BLACK AVANT GARDE?
30 books — 29 voters
The Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil GaimanPromethea, Vol. 1 by Alan MooreWatchmen by Alan MooreHabibi by Craig ThompsonThe Invisibles, Volume 1 by Grant Morrison
Comics That Challenge the Reader
85 books — 39 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySiddhartha by Hermann HesseTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Books that make you think.
1,132 books — 1,116 voters
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Unconventional, Seductive, Intelligent and Dizzyingly Surreal
744 books — 388 voters

Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1 by Hiromu Arakawa20th Century Boys 1 by Naoki UrasawaBerserk, Vol. 1 by Kentaro MiuraNausicaä of the Valley of Wind, Vol. 1 by Hayao MiyazakiA Bride's Story, Vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori
Manga as Voted by Manga Elitist
139 books — 99 voters
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,510 books — 8,722 voters


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