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The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLeanNo Logo by Naomi KleinBlowback by Chalmers JohnsonThe Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebDark Alliance by Gary Webb
Books that tell you what REALLY is going on!
616 books — 199 voters
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Wall Bangers!
748 books — 503 voters

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Best Historical Fiction
8,038 books — 26,712 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Odyssey by HomerThe Chosen by Chaim Potok
Required Reading in High School
817 books — 1,308 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah VowellWhy Should You Doubt Me Now? by Mary Breasted
Best Humorous Books
4,449 books — 8,327 voters
The Slave Girl by Buchi EmechetaThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeWest with the Night by Beryl Markham
Best books for an African Safari
483 books — 527 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Must Read Classics
1,887 books — 4,747 voters
Little Women by Louisa May AlcottIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryHeidi by Johanna Spyri
Favorite books from my childhood
4,516 books — 7,702 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,876 books — 49,844 voters
A Suitable Boy by Vikram SethSwami and Friends by R.K. Narayan
Best South Asian Fiction
765 books — 1,933 voters

The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,930 books — 3,632 voters
Roughing It by Mark Twain
Have Passport Will Travel
713 books — 607 voters

A Suitable Boy by Vikram SethSacred Games by Vikram ChandraMaximum City by Suketu Mehta
India
1,033 books — 885 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyMacbeth by William Shakespeare
Evil Inside
469 books — 190 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,534 books — 8,872 voters
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBeloved by Toni MorrisonInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
Best African American Books
1,063 books — 1,161 voters

National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,998 books — 10,921 voters
1984 by George OrwellA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleNeuromancer by William GibsonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,771 books — 25,807 voters

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,331 books — 8,174 voters
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Thickest Books Ever
892 books — 2,488 voters

The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence DurrellThe Cairo Trilogy by Naguib MahfouzA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceNiccolò Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
Best Books Ever
78,990 books — 294,133 voters