Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 172 voters
Over de esthetiek by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelCritique of Judgment by Immanuel KantOn the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich SchillerAesthetic Theory by Theodor W. AdornoThe Republic by Plato
Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art
190 books — 76 voters

Toda Mafalda by QuinoEl Aleph by Jorge Luis BorgesEl Teatro de los Monstruos by Viviana CorderoEl juguete rabioso by Roberto ArltOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Argentinos & Latinoamericanos
83 books — 54 voters
Ubik by Philip K. DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickA Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickThe Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Best of Philip K. Dick
93 books — 408 voters

Foundation by Isaac AsimovI, Robot by Isaac AsimovSecond Foundation by Isaac AsimovThe Caves of Steel by Isaac AsimovFoundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
Best Asimov Books
88 books — 124 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,839 books — 3,601 voters

The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Liars' Club by Mary KarrHamlet by William ShakespeareFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesSelected Essays from by Jonathan Franzen
Headmaster's House Library - DFW
22 books — 1 voter
The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsAnimal Farm by George Orwell1984 by George Orwell
Absurdist Fiction
314 books — 288 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
442 books — 579 voters
Revolutionary Road by Richard YatesBeyond the Last Time by Noah TuyaThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Parrot's Tale by Miller CaldwellFreedom by Jonathan Franzen
Suburban Fiction
128 books — 62 voters


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