The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCatch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrAtonement by Ian McEwan
World War II Fiction
1,470 books — 2,176 voters
Blood & Beauty by Sarah DunantThe Borgia Bride by Jeanne KalogridisThe Family by Mario PuzoPoison by Sara PooleMadonna of the Seven Hills by Jean Plaidy
Best Books about the Borgia Family
78 books — 179 voters

John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best History Books
3,975 books — 4,211 voters
Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSteppenwolf by Hermann HessePerfume by Patrick Süskind
German Classics
227 books — 151 voters

TWAS The Year 2020 by Karl WigginsThe State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninImperialism by Vladimir LeninSocialism by Friedrich EngelsThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Marx and marxism
68 books — 11 voters
Stoner by John  WilliamsChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
New York Review Books - Classics
632 books — 903 voters

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel BarberyOld Filth by Jane GardamA Novel Bookstore by Laurence CosséMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Europa Edition Books
128 books — 143 voters
The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher      HillGod's Englishman by Christopher      HillThe English Civil War by Diane PurkissCavaliers and Roundheads by Christopher HibbertThe Major Works by John Milton
The English Civil Wars 1640 - 1660
95 books — 36 voters

Until Our Voices Meet by Biswatosh SinhaThe Assamese by Sangeeta Barooah PisharotyNo Land's People by Abhishek SahaSecret killings of Assam by Mrinal TalukdarHow to Tell the Story of an Insurgency by Aruni Kashyap
Understanding Assam
42 books — 11 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Indian Fiction Books
933 books — 2,463 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
600 books — 2,063 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
453 books — 674 voters


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