The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiSputnik Sweetheart by Haruki MurakamiRashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke AkutagawaAfter Dark by Haruki Murakami
Japanese Books That Are Not Manga
256 books — 190 voters
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra1984 by George OrwellAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasUlysses by James Joyce
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,607 books — 10,347 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe World Without Us by Alan WeismanA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingWhat's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas  Frank
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,239 books — 8,069 voters
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas  FrankThe Assault on Reason by Al Gore
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
941 books — 1,098 voters

The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeThe Mysterious Stranger by Mark TwainA Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan ThomasThe Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Good short fiction
663 books — 391 voters
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Short Stories
1,757 books — 1,040 voters

Great Expectations by Charles DickensDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Best Books Ever
76,704 books — 285,097 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
Stories For Book Lovers
8,363 books — 8,452 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Best Twentieth Century American Novels
299 books — 226 voters
East of Eden by John SteinbeckTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Great American Novel
671 books — 1,092 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
American Literature
519 books — 175 voters
The Collected Poems by Langston HughesThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerMy Dearest Friend by Abigail Adams
Library of America Wish List
86 books — 25 voters

Matilda by Roald DahlThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienJames and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussThe BFG by Roald Dahl
Favorite books from my childhood
4,426 books — 7,433 voters
Glenn Beck's Common Sense by Glenn BeckAn Inconvenient Book by Glenn BeckJoe the Plumber by Samuel J. WurzelbacherAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,638 books — 5,990 voters

The Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangThe Twelve Caesars by SuetoniusThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund  MorrisPeter the Great by Robert K. Massie
Best History Books
3,725 books — 3,763 voters

The Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil GaimanMarvel 1602 by Neil GaimanThe Arrival by Shaun Tan
Best Graphic Novels
3,450 books — 6,769 voters

I, Claudius by Robert GravesClaudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert GravesHow Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
Best Books About Ancient Rome
739 books — 1,086 voters
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Best Book to Screen Interpretation
579 books — 479 voters

The Plot Against America by Philip RothThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Best Alternate History Novels and Stories
769 books — 1,295 voters
The Plot Against America by Philip RothThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Best Alternate History
359 books — 678 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,307 books — 4,545 voters
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann HesseEast of Eden by John SteinbeckCandide by VoltaireThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Best Philosophical Literature
1,170 books — 2,727 voters

Shōgun by James ClavellI, Claudius by Robert Graves
Best Historical Fiction
7,439 books — 25,626 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Childhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,482 books — 24,753 voters


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