Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTrainspotting by Irvine WelshInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Transgressive Fiction
894 books — 974 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)
6,396 books — 8,177 voters

The Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherThe Synchronicity Key by David WilcockThe Ra Contact by Donald Tully ElkinsMeditations by Marcus AureliusThe Field by Lynne McTaggart
Knowledge
234 books — 297 voters
Einstein by Walter IsaacsonGenius by James GleickThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnTesla by Margaret CheneySurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman/What Do You Care What Other... by Richard P. Feynman
Scientists and Philosophers
238 books — 162 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWatership Down by Richard  AdamsA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Highbrow Fantasy Books
425 books — 633 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,379 books — 1,639 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,451 books — 1,816 voters

Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanNever My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,091 books — 1,832 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis1984 by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,301 books — 11,654 voters

The Shining by Stephen  KingThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensHeart-Shaped Box by Joe  HillThe Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Ghost Stories
1,523 books — 1,993 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Metafiction
446 books — 584 voters


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