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The Fungus by Harry Adam Knight
Mushrooms, Toadstools, Fungi
123 books — 46 voters
Sorrowland by Rivers SolomonWhat Moves the Dead by T. KingfisherThe Fungus by Harry Adam Knight
Fungus Fiction
50 books — 43 voters

Entangled Life by Merlin SheldrakeThe Secret Life of Fungi by Aliya WhiteleyThe Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Righteous Fungus
19 books — 7 voters
True Biz by Sara Nović
Signing and Sign Language (Fiction)
49 books — 19 voters

True Biz by Sara Nović
Characters using American Sign Language
87 books — 69 voters
True Biz by Sara NovićThe Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Blind/Deaf/Mute
435 books — 390 voters

Mostly Void, Partially Stars by Joseph FinkThe Great Glowing Coils of the Universe by Joseph FinkThe Buying of Lot 37 by Joseph FinkWho's a Good Boy? by Joseph FinkWelcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink
Books That Feel Like Fever Dreams
102 books — 44 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Best Comic Novels
83 books — 83 voters

Hag-Seed by Margaret AtwoodSaving Juliet by Suzanne SelforsIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioVinegar Girl by Anne TylerA Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Shakespeare Retellings
161 books — 184 voters
Pericles by William ShakespeareCymbeline by William ShakespeareOthello by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
106 books — 1,246 voters

The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Padmasambhava
Most important for New Age / Occult readers
109 books — 10 voters
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Forgotten Frights: Overlooked and Underappreciated Horror
810 books — 414 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Gothic Books of All Time
640 books — 3,602 voters
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
The Goriest Books Ever
410 books — 630 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Bad Beginning by Lemony SnicketThe Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Absurdist Fiction
319 books — 295 voters
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Surreal Horror
88 books — 80 voters

Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma GoldmanThe Lorax by Dr. SeussIshmael by Daniel QuinnWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Anarchist books
478 books — 380 voters
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XWomen, Race & Class by Angela Y. DavisThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,192 books — 1,615 voters

1984 by George Orwell
Novels with Socialist undertones
63 books — 30 voters
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
/lit/ leftist texts
121 books — 24 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonUnderstanding Power by Noam Chomsky
Best Left-Texts
679 books — 370 voters
Inkheart by Cornelia FunkeUglies by Scott WesterfeldThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Best Young Adult Books
13,218 books — 80,482 voters