Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
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The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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1,720 books — 6,886 voters

The Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonCandide by Voltaire
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376 books — 1,009 voters
The Tempest by William ShakespeareParadise Lost by John MiltonVolpone by Ben JonsonLa vida es sueño by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 706 voters

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
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Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
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Foundation by Isaac AsimovChildhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
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American Gods by Neil GaimanJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeMistborn by Brandon SandersonA Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
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3,091 books — 10,009 voters
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It by Richard HofstadterThe Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonAssassination Vacation by Sarah VowellThe Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
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2,171 books — 2,522 voters

The Odyssey by HomerThe Principia  by Isaac NewtonDialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo GalileiTwo Treatises of Government by John Locke1984 by George Orwell
The Most Influential Books
1,463 books — 5,291 voters
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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