Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto BoalThe Empty Space by Peter BrookPerformance Theory by Richard SchechnerThe Theater and Its Double by Antonin ArtaudBrecht on Theatre by Bertolt Brecht
Performance & Theatre Theory
50 books — 39 voters
Siddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIVZen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu SuzukiWhen Things Fall Apart by Pema ChödrönPeace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
A Buddhist Reading List
893 books — 1,150 voters

The Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwinالقرآن الكريم by AnonymousThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,280 voters
The Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith Jr.القرآن الكريم by AnonymousTao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Best Holy Books
268 books — 530 voters

The Odyssey by Homer1984 by George OrwellHamlet by William ShakespeareCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The 100 Most Influential Works
138 books — 80 voters
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCloud Atlas by David  MitchellPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 249 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëAlice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Penguin Clothbound Classics
99 books — 362 voters
A Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Scientific Readings for Everyone
150 books — 72 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
585 books — 2,042 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Stranger by Albert CamusBlindness by José SaramagoThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckLord of the Flies by William Golding
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
377 books — 280 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Russian Literature
511 books — 2,275 voters
Touching Feeling by Eve Kosofsky SedgwickAn Archive of Feelings by Ann CvetkovichCruel Optimism by Lauren BerlantThe Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara AhmedOrdinary Affects by Kathleen  Stewart
Affect Theory
22 books — 13 voters