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1984 by George OrwellBottled Goods by Sophie van LlewynGulag by Anne ApplebaumOrdinary Men by Christopher R. BrowningThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Best Books About Totalitarianism
184 books — 38 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,863 books — 2,215 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaSiddhartha by Hermann HesseCandide by Voltaire
Myth, Meaning, and Experience
269 books — 92 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)
6,227 books — 8,065 voters

Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
2,893 books — 2,037 voters
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiThe King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories by Robert W. ChambersGalveston by Nic PizzolattoThe Stranger by Albert CamusTime is a Flat Circle by Melissa Milazzo
HBO's True Detective
123 books — 114 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō AbeWe by Yevgeny Zamyatin
100 Must-Read Works of Speculative Fiction In Translation
100 books — 58 voters
The Martian by Andy WeirThe Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinWe Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. TaylorThe Dark Forest by Liu CixinDeath's End by Liu Cixin
Best Hard Science Fiction of the 21st Century
191 books — 1,500 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,837 books — 3,596 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best History Books
3,689 books — 3,726 voters

John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
2,114 books — 2,482 voters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingRelativity by Albert EinsteinA Compassionate Guide For Social Robots by Marcel Heerink
Why Are We Here?: A Comprehensive Reading List
22 books — 9 voters


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