Dune by Frank HerbertDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Forever War by Joe HaldemanHyperion by Dan SimmonsFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
SF Masterworks
203 books — 724 voters
Steve Jobs by Walter IsaacsonUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandEinstein by Walter IsaacsonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerJohn Adams by David McCullough
Best Biographies
1,665 books — 2,945 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownHarry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. RowlingThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerTwilight by Stephenie MeyerLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Most Polarizing Books Of All Time
91 books — 22 voters
The Secret History by Donna TarttThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughStoner by John  WilliamsFranny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Campus Days
400 books — 296 voters

The Secret History by Donna TarttIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioNinth House by Leigh BardugoBabel by R.F. KuangThe Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Dark Academia
364 books — 1,497 voters
The Secret History by Donna TarttPossession by A.S. ByattGaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersCampusland by Scott  JohnstonLucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Academia in Literature
136 books — 90 voters

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiThe King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories by Robert W. ChambersGalveston by Nic PizzolattoThe Stranger by Albert CamusTime is a Flat Circle by Melissa Milazzo
HBO's True Detective
123 books — 115 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Vicarious Thrills
391 books — 420 voters

Ready Player One by Ernest ClineHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsAlterWorld by D. Rus
The Games We Play
105 books — 57 voters
The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoOn Becoming an Alchemist by Catherine MacCounAlchemy & Mysticism by Alexander RoobA-Ma Alchemy of Love by Nataša PantovićThe Modern Alchemist by Iona Miller
Books of Alchemy
101 books — 87 voters

Soulless by Gail CarrigerLeviathan by Scott WesterfeldBoneshaker by Cherie PriestPerdido Street Station by China MiévilleThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Best Steampunk Books
1,248 books — 4,093 voters