1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLes Misérables by Victor HugoHamlet by William Shakespeare
Best European Literature
825 books — 306 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
113 books — 115 voters

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterFermat's Enigma by Simon SinghFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottThe Code Book by Simon SinghZero by Charles Seife
Best Books About Mathematics
451 books — 671 voters
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold AbelsonParadigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter NorvigPractical Common Lisp by Peter SeibelThe Joy of Clojure by Michael FogusThe Little Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman
Learning Lisp
19 books — 24 voters

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
Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. CormenStructure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold AbelsonThe C Programming Language by Brian W. KernighanThe Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set by Donald Ervin KnuthThe Pragmatic Programmer by Andy   Hunt
Essential Books of Computer Science
203 books — 324 voters

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Best Cognitive Science Books
416 books — 512 voters
A Mind for Numbers by Barbara OakleyFluent Forever by Gabriel WynerThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanMoonwalking with Einstein by Joshua FoerMake It Stick by Peter C. Brown
Coursera's Learning How to Learn List
11 books — 35 voters