The Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerIntuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett
Best Cognitive Science Books
418 books — 515 voters
The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseDeath in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas MannDoctor Faustus by Thomas MannThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
986 books — 961 voters

Beksińscy. Portret podwójny by Magdalena GrzebałkowskaSteve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Best Biographies
1,721 books — 3,092 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Fall by Albert Camus
Nobel Laureates
674 books — 572 voters
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
Contemporary Writers from Poland
70 books — 29 voters

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
Latin American Fiction
890 books — 1,191 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonShakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Best Poetry Books
3,032 books — 2,571 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienMacbeth by William Shakespeare
Best School Assigned Books
766 books — 2,059 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most Difficult Novels
596 books — 2,054 voters

Lalka by Bolesław PrusPrimeval and Other Times by Olga TokarczukFerdydurke by Witold GombrowiczTango by Sławomir MrożekThe Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki
Best Polish Books
578 books — 557 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Disappointing Books
2,770 books — 4,608 voters

The Twilight Saga by Stephenie MeyerJustin Bieber by Riley BrooksMiles to Go by Miley CyrusFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesHannah Montana and Miley Cyrus - Best of Both Worlds Concert by Miley Cyrus
The Worst Books of All Time
8,105 books — 19,883 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
519 books — 2,294 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyGreat Expectations by Charles DickensRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Must Read Classics
1,875 books — 4,708 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Philosophical Literature
1,196 books — 2,822 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellUlysses by James Joyce
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
12,062 books — 10,842 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerEragon by Christopher PaoliniFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Host by Stephenie Meyer
Books I wish I had never read
1,295 books — 1,362 voters

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,267 books — 8,080 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Republic by PlatoThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Most Influential Books
1,490 books — 5,294 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,848 books — 22,313 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,423 books — 123,471 voters