A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Ernest HemingwayEl túnel by Ernesto SabatoNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Best Existential Fiction
449 books — 767 voters

Ready Player One by Ernest ClineThe Martian by Andy WeirWorld War Z by Max Brooks
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,215 books — 8,964 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiNight Train to Lisbon by Pascal MercierThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón1984 by George Orwell
Books about Books
1,384 books — 1,519 voters

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusBeyond Good and Evil by Friedrich NietzscheA History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Best World Philosophy Book
953 books — 1,419 voters
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsOn Bullshit by Harry G. FrankfurtFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Best Book Titles
11,609 books — 8,004 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaHamlet by William Shakespeare
Books on Loneliness
514 books — 495 voters