Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/2680176-tom">Tom</a> (27 Lists)

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Backstop by J. Conrad Guest

Best Indie Books to Read in 2012

965 books — 1,073 voters

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

Why Cats Paint by Heather Busch

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Bluffer's Guide to Rocket Science by Peter Berlin

I Am America by Stephen Colbert

Hilarious Titles

230 books — 141 voters

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Time Traveler by Ronald L. Mallett

Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography

5,847 books — 6,370 voters

Time Traveler by Ronald L. Mallett

The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Best Time Travel Fiction

1,966 books — 5,251 voters

History of My Life, Vols. I & II by Giacomo Casanova

Flashbacks by Timothy Leary

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman

What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures ... by Richard P. Feynman

A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity by Bill O'Reilly

Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies

2,103 books — 1,951 voters

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Best Children's Books

5,310 books — 6,709 voters

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson

The Wounded Land by Stephen R. Donaldson

Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies

2,084 books — 11,742 voters

Archimedes' Revenge by Paul Hoffman

Bluff Your Way in Philosophy by Jim Hankinson

The Bluffer's Guide to Rocket Science by Peter Berlin

Bluffer's Guide to Quantum Universe by Jack Klaff

Late Night with David Letterman by Merrill Markoe

Read Them Twice...At Least

13,787 books — 11,406 voters

The Book of Numbers by glynne-jones-tim

Count Zero by William Gibson

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

History of My Life, Vols. I & II by Giacomo Casanova

Nothing but Numbers

1,444 books — 210 voters

Archimedes' Revenge by Paul Hoffman

Flashbacks by Timothy Leary

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman/What Do You Care What Other... by Richard P. Feynman

What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures ... by Richard P. Feynman

Time Traveler by Ronald L. Mallett

Scientists and Philosophers

233 books — 157 voters

Count Zero by William Gibson

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Old Man's War by John Scalzi

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

Computers in Literature

241 books — 242 voters

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

Great "Dog" Books

1,338 books — 1,933 voters

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only

1,838 books — 3,601 voters

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Great Books: No Novels Need Apply

455 books — 121 voters

The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

1,220 books — 2,750 voters

The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem

The Flying Sorcerers by David Gerrold

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

Best Comedic Science Ficttion Books

611 books — 1,187 voters

Grendel by John Gardner

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Holes by Louis Sachar

Rooting for the Bad Guy

683 books — 1,466 voters

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

The Levity Effect by Adrian Gostick

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Greatest Psychology Books

794 books — 1,332 voters

The Runes of the Earth by Stephen R. Donaldson

A Man Rides Through by Stephen R. Donaldson

The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen R. Donaldson

White Gold Wielder by Stephen R. Donaldson

The One Tree by Stephen R. Donaldson

Fantasy Books Set in Two Worlds

667 books — 631 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,603 books — 13,147 voters

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Made to Stick by Chip Heath

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,235 books — 8,065 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK

1,133 books — 10,101 voters

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem

The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein

Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,760 books — 25,997 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Thickest Books Ever

889 books — 2,490 voters

Lamb by Christopher Moore

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Mr. Obvious by Lileks

Best Humorous Books

4,337 books — 7,943 voters

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

Best Historical Fiction

7,433 books — 25,614 voters

The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem

The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein

Inferno by Larry Niven

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,437 books — 24,678 voters