Cult Girls by Natalie GrandCultish by Amanda MontellUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  HoughVoodoo Histories by David Aaronovitch
Cult Book Club: Theory
43 books — 12 voters
Good Omens by Terry PratchettThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeParadise Lost by John MiltonThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovDracula by Bram Stoker
Sympathy for the Devil
331 books — 319 voters

The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Republic by PlatoMeditations by Marcus Aurelius
Best Books of the Ancient World
277 books — 294 voters
No Longer Human by Osamu DazaiThe Myth of Sisyphus by Albert CamusNotes from Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan PoeThe Moon Over the Mountain by Atsushi Nakajima
ALTER EGO's ES Library
29 books — 10 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 — 387 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëRebecca by Daphne du MaurierDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Best Gothic Books of All Time
589 books — 3,505 voters

History of Beauty by Umberto EcoWays of Seeing by John BergerBrunelleschi's Dome by Ross KingLeonardo da Vinci by Frank ZöllnerA History of Illuminated Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
The World History of Art
377 books — 137 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
513 books — 2,282 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cult Classics
1,568 books — 2,120 voters