An Accidental Philanthropist by Winsome Dunn McIntoshSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonNew Space Capitalism by Rainer ZitelmannQuiet by Susan Cain
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,393 books — 2,182 voters
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir1453 by Roger Crowley
Best Medieval History Books
834 books — 357 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
264 books — 229 voters
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiSnow Country by Yasunari KawabataRashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japanese Literature
310 books — 388 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,896 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,323 books — 5,913 voters

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieAlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenBlack Beauty by Anna Sewell
Penguin/Puffin Chalk
6 books — 10 voters

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanWhite Nights by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyThe Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Brontë
Penguin Little Black Classics
127 books — 213 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëGreat Expectations by Charles DickensMiddlemarch by George EliotLord of the Flies by William Golding
Penguin Drop Caps
26 books — 69 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Penguin Classics
601 books — 317 voters


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