The Big Books of Fall

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The Book Thief by Markus ZusakFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyMatilda by Roald DahlThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Books about Books
1,394 books — 1,522 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,914 books — 2,277 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
412 books — 302 voters
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Best Cognitive Science Books
432 books — 535 voters

Oedipus Rex by SophoclesThe Odyssey by HomerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyManifesto of the Free People's Union by Jakub LasakHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Books - required at top US colleges
79 books — 6 voters
The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Republic by PlatoLeviathan by Thomas HobbesThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
Required Reading of the Top 10 US Colleges
79 books — 7 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Medicine and Literature
2,046 books — 2,284 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
1,959 books — 3,654 voters

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich1984 by George OrwellA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonZeitoun by Dave Eggers
President Obama's Summer Reading List
344 books — 170 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 — 209 voters