We Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Best Literature About the Vietnam War
336 books — 642 voters
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,187 books — 2,460 voters

The Life of Henry Brulard by StendhalConfessions by Jean-Jacques RousseauSocrates by A.E. TaylorThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,089 books — 6,766 voters
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann HesseThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Antichrist by Friedrich NietzscheHuman, All Too Human by Friedrich NietzscheOn the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
984 books — 959 voters

Wonderlust by Michael               Davis
Book Covers with Art/Paintings
176 books — 37 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Giver by Lois LowryLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Philosophical Literature
1,186 books — 2,808 voters

The Running Man by Richard  BachmanDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,100 voters
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Best Children's Books
5,386 books — 6,867 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Forever War by Joe HaldemanAll You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,611 books — 25,118 voters

The Works of Francis Bacon 14 Volume Paperback Set (Cambridge... by Francis BaconWord Index to Plato by Leonard BrandwoodThe Library of America Collection by VariousThe Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection by Various
Books you WISH you could afford
86 books — 65 voters
A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingWhat Is This Thing Called Science? by Alan F. ChalmersWhy Evolution Is True by Jerry A. CoyneThe World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,922 books — 3,617 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
Best Environmental Books
1,082 books — 1,226 voters

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Short Stories
1,760 books — 1,043 voters
The Odyssey by Homer
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,243 books — 122,746 voters

Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
929 books — 2,386 voters
The Republic by PlatoThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheApology by PlatoThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Best World Philosophy Book
953 books — 1,420 voters

Lord of the Flies by William GoldingAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Best Books Ever
77,421 books — 288,905 voters
The Odyssey by HomerThe Republic by PlatoThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheBeyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Great Books: No Novels Need Apply
456 books — 122 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
Best Nature Books
1,155 books — 799 voters
A Theatre of Envy by René Girard
Best Books About Shakespeare
262 books — 167 voters

Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories by Voltaire
Concealed Authorship
440 books — 50 voters
Natural Right and History by Leo StraussHistory of Political Philosophy by Leo StraussThe City and Man by Leo StraussPersecution and the Art of Writing by Leo StraussOn Tyranny by Leo Strauss
Straussian Book List
165 books — 17 voters