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Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan WilsonAmong the Thugs by Bill Buford
Best Football (Soccer) Books
529 books — 456 voters
A Very Stable Genius by Philip RuckerA Promised Land by Barack Obama
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2020
725 books — 152 voters

Bullshit Jobs by David GraeberThe War on Normal People by Andrew YangMoneyland by Oliver Bullough
Economics Published in Year: 2018
12 books — 6 voters
Lost Connections by Johann HariThe War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
Science Published in Year: 2018
55 books — 89 voters

Fascism by Madeleine K. AlbrightThe Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Historical Nonfiction 2018
222 books — 56 voters
Lost Connections by Johann HariA River in Darkness by Masaji IshikawaHow Democracies Die by Steven LevitskyFascism by Madeleine K. AlbrightFear by Bob Woodward
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2018
436 books — 194 voters

How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky
History Published in Year: 2018
408 books — 66 voters
The Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinGhost Wars by Steve CollImperial Ambitions by Noam Chomsky
American Foreign Policy
476 books — 293 voters

The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. GraffSay Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeHow to Hide an Empire by Daniel ImmerwahrThe Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-WellsThe Body by Bill Bryson
Best Non-Fiction of 2019
337 books — 194 voters
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-WellsThis Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
Consequences of Climate Change
119 books — 75 voters

The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
Automation & Technological Unemployment
69 books — 67 voters
Chavs by Owen JonesThe Establishment by Owen JonesBrexit by Ian DuntThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinManufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Best Books To Become An Informed UK Voter
134 books — 50 voters

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeLord of Light by Roger ZelaznyFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickLast and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
SF Masterworks
200 books — 727 voters
The Last Command by Timothy ZahnHeir to the Empire by Timothy ZahnDark Force Rising by Timothy ZahnDarth Plagueis by James Luceno
Star Wars Novels
177 books — 38 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovStoner by John WilliamsThe Glass Bead Game by Hermann HesseFaust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics
500 books — 610 voters
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburySpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott CardEnder’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Favorite Novels Which Won the Hugo Award
89 books — 1,627 voters

Stoner by John WilliamsButcher's Crossing by John WilliamsAn Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily GrossmanJakob von Gunten by Robert WalserA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
New York Review Books - Classics
633 books — 907 voters
Eros Unbound by Anaïs Nin
Penguin Great Loves
21 books — 47 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Trial by Franz KafkaKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiA Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Best Surrealist Literature
267 books — 233 voters
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
12,232 books — 11,448 voters

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Best of Philip K. Dick
95 books — 411 voters
No Longer Human by Osamu DazaiSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo LeviThe Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Writers who committed suicide
538 books — 291 voters

A Burnt-Out Case by Graham GreeneHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradOrientalism by Edward W. SaidThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Books About Colonialism
691 books — 242 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Plague by Albert CamusLife & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
Best by African Authors
411 books — 224 voters

Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
Best Poets
529 books — 415 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Quick Reads
1,086 books — 718 voters

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Metafiction
446 books — 583 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Fatherland by Robert Harris
World War II Fiction
1,485 books — 2,219 voters

Food of the Gods by Terence McKennaJohnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Books that Changed My World View
483 books — 441 voters
Hunger by Knut HamsunThe Stranger by Albert CamusOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Immoralist by André GideSeize the Day by Saul Bellow
Nobel Laureates
674 books — 573 voters


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