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
594 books — 2,049 voters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm GladwellFactfulness by Hans RoslingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Bill Gates Booklist
289 books — 207 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Booker Prize Winners
61 books — 1,996 voters
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxManufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Best Left-Texts
667 books — 360 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonAngels & Demons by Dan    Brown
Thrillers
4,805 books — 5,911 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann HesseLord of the Flies by William Golding
Nobel Laureates
663 books — 570 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Stranger by Albert CamusBlindness by José SaramagoThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
381 books — 285 voters

The Stand by Stephen  KingIt by Stephen  KingThe Shining by Stephen  KingMisery by Stephen  King’Salem’s Lot by Stephen  King
Best of Stephen King
201 books — 3,880 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,261 books — 8,077 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanQuiet by Susan Cain
Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
1,245 books — 1,056 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Greatest Show on Earth by Richard DawkinsWhy Evolution Is True by Jerry A. CoyneYour Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
Best Books on Evolution...
280 books — 219 voters


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