The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonFaceless Killers by Henning MankellThe Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell
Scandinavian/Nordic Mysteries
317 books — 679 voters
Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham ClintonA Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren
NY Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers 2014
76 books — 180 voters

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingLong Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'NeillFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost
100 Best American Authors
751 books — 615 voters
The Haiku Anthology by Cor van den HeuvelJapanese Death Poems by Yoel HoffmannMountain Tasting  by Santōka TanedaPeonies Kana by Shiki MasaokaThe Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō
Haiku
116 books — 101 voters

The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Fiction with Jesus as a Character
185 books — 167 voters
3 Nights in August by Buzz BissingerThe Natural by Bernard MalamudThe Iowa Baseball Confederacy by W.P. KinsellaBall Four by Jim BoutonClemente by David Maraniss
Best Baseball Books
749 books — 656 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyDune by Frank HerbertWatership Down by Richard  AdamsMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Best Books Ever
76,040 books — 282,341 voters
100 Selected Poems by E.E. CummingsA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence FerlinghettiThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotSelected Poems by William Carlos WilliamsThe Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Best Poetry Books
2,980 books — 2,421 voters

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Best Book Titles
11,384 books — 7,785 voters
Dreaming With His Eyes Open / A Life Of Diego Rivera by Patrick MarnhamThe Writer's Brush by Donald FriedmanGeorge Tooker by George TookerLiving Color by Natalie GoldbergEastman Johnson by Teresa A. Carbone
Best Art and Art History Books
773 books — 312 voters

The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert FrostCollected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. EliotE.E. Cummings by E.E. CummingsBasho by Matsuo BashōComplete Works by Arthur Rimbaud
Best Poets
518 books — 388 voters
The World's Religions by Huston SmithDick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat by Dick Gregory
Books that Changed My World View
467 books — 411 voters

Deliverance by James Dickey
Best Books Set in Appalachia
793 books — 837 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,436 books — 8,396 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyTolkien On Fairy-stories by J.R.R. TolkienFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,451 books — 119,745 voters
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. CoveyWhat to Say When You Talk to Yourself by Shad Helmstetter
Best Self Help Books
2,285 books — 2,326 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XSoul on Ice by Eldridge CleaverVoices in the Mirror by Gordon Parks
African American Lives
457 books — 206 voters
Truman by David McCulloughParting the Waters by Taylor BranchEdison Inventing the Century by Neil BaldwinNoah Webster by Harlow Giles UngerThe First American by H.W. Brands
Best American History Books
2,119 books — 2,489 voters

Truman by David McCulloughJohn Adams by David McCullough
David McCullough Titles
11 books — 34 voters
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingThe Hotel New Hampshire by John IrvingSetting Free the Bears by John IrvingA Widow for One Year by John Irving
Best of John Irving
27 books — 344 voters

Gone Fishin' by Walter MosleyLittle Scarlet by Walter MosleyFear Itself by Walter MosleyFearless Jones by Walter MosleyCinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley
african american mysteries
172 books — 67 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienDune by Frank Herbert
Read Them Twice...At Least
13,629 books — 11,231 voters

The Haiku Anthology by Cor van den HeuvelJapanese Death Poems by Yoel HoffmannMountain Tasting  by Santōka TanedaIntroduction to Haiku by Harold Gould HendersonA History of Haiku, Volume 1 by R.H. Blyth
Introduction to Haiku
40 books — 25 voters
Good Poems by Garrison KeillorThe Haiku Anthology by Cor van den HeuvelLove Poems from God by Daniel LadinskyHomespun by Jimmy Neil Smith
Best Anthologies
1,118 books — 767 voters

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Vonnegut's Best
37 books — 632 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyDune by Frank HerbertThe Godfather by Mario Puzo
Must Read Classics
1,858 books — 4,646 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,345 books — 24,637 voters
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,834 books — 10,486 voters


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