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Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset MaughamCakes and Ale by W. Somerset MaughamThe Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset MaughamThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamLiza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham
Best of W. Somerset Maugham
91 books — 15 voters
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareAntony and Cleopatra by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareHamlet by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
100 books — 1,238 voters

Tao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Analects by ConfuciusThe Dhammapada by AnonymousThe Holy Bible by Anonymousالقرآن الكريم by Anonymous
Best Holy Books
268 books — 532 voters
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyThe Possessed by Fyodor DostoevskyNo Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul SartreThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Existential Fiction
446 books — 763 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best Philosophical Literature
1,166 books — 2,724 voters
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu SonglingThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCandide by VoltaireCritique of Practical Reason by Immanuel KantAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,008 voters

Meditations by Marcus AureliusThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousHistory of the Peloponnesian War by ThucydidesTao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Art of War by Sun Tzu
Best Books of the Ancient World
277 books — 296 voters
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset MaughamCakes and Ale by W. Somerset MaughamThe Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset MaughamThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamThe Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The best of W. Somerset Maugham
28 books — 42 voters

Meditations by Marcus AureliusBeing and Nothingness by Jean-Paul SartreI and Thou by Martin BuberFear and Trembling by Søren KierkegaardThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best World Philosophy Book
953 books — 1,420 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfLolita by Vladimir Nabokov1984 by George OrwellThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,814 books — 49,784 voters

The Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Jungle by Upton SinclairAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,091 books — 1,530 voters
Endurance by Alfred LansingInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerCatch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale
Favorite Travel Books
2,017 books — 3,939 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyDead Souls by Nikolai GogolDemons by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,872 voters
The Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxWorkers' Councils by Anton PannekoekThe Rosa Luxemburg Reader by Rosa LuxemburgOn Power and Ideology by Noam ChomskyThe Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky
Socialist Classics
419 books — 327 voters

The Holy Bible by Anonymousالقرآن الكريم by AnonymousThe Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Analects by Confucius
The Most Influential Books
1,480 books — 5,281 voters
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynBurmese Days by George OrwellA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Night and Day
1,250 books — 74 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceMolloy by Samuel BeckettUlysses by James Joyce
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,044 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyDead Souls by Nikolai GogolThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyDemons by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,279 voters