The Stranger by Albert CamusFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo TolstoyThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great Short Short Books
590 books — 532 voters
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1,215 books — 2,804 voters

Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. CormenThe C Programming Language by Brian W. KernighanIntroduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael SipserArtificial Intelligence by Stuart Russell
Essential Books of Computer Science
206 books — 327 voters

This Is Water by David Foster WallaceConsider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster WallaceA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster WallaceArguably by Christopher Hitchens
Best Book of Essays
407 books — 184 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Odyssey by HomerThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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32,896 books — 124,836 voters

A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,677 books — 14,470 voters
The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,839 books — 22,516 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,826 books — 49,875 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,739 books — 6,925 voters

U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding Fathers
Best Books of the 18th Century
373 books — 1,015 voters
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Best Books of the 17th Century
334 books — 712 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most Difficult Novels
601 books — 2,064 voters
To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfHamlet by William Shakespeare
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
764 books — 1,842 voters

Death Note, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi Ohba
Rooting for the Bad Guy
686 books — 1,482 voters
Intensity by Dean Koontz
SCARIEST BOOK I EVER READ
252 books — 261 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Best Books of All Time
502 books — 231 voters
Death Note, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi Ohba
Best Graphic Novels
3,515 books — 6,816 voters

The Giver by Lois Lowry
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,092 books — 26,904 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Books Ever
79,205 books — 295,196 voters

The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan
182 books — 110 voters
The Art of War by Sun TzuFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Must Read Classics
1,892 books — 4,755 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanCharlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Best Young Adult Books
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