You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro EnrigueJames by Percival EverettGlorious Exploits by Ferdia  LennonMartyr! by Kaveh Akbar
2025 Tournament of Books Longlist
84 books — 273 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Feminist Books
2,489 books — 3,489 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Siddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,355 books — 119,259 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Giver by Lois LowryTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanDivergent by Veronica Roth
Best Young Adult Books
13,077 books — 80,115 voters

Utopia by Thomas MoreThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyLord of the Flies by William Golding
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,280 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodBrave New World by Aldous Huxley1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,711 books — 25,909 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyEast of Eden by John SteinbeckBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Must Read Classics
1,853 books — 4,625 voters