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
255 books — 191 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...
11,289 books — 10,021 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe World Without Us by Alan WeismanA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingWhat's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas  Frank
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,227 books — 8,065 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
935 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
657 books — 392 voters
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Short Stories
1,755 books — 1,045 voters

Great Expectations by Charles DickensDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Best Books Ever
75,942 books — 281,854 voters
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
Stories For Book Lovers
8,331 books — 8,312 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
670 books — 1,089 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
505 books — 174 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
4,414 books — 7,416 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
1,637 books — 5,996 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
3,688 books — 3,725 voters

The Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil GaimanMarvel 1602 by Neil GaimanThe Arrival by Shaun Tan
Best Graphic Novels
3,456 books — 6,765 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
737 books — 1,081 voters
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Best Book to Screen Interpretation
579 books — 480 voters

The Plot Against America by Philip RothThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Best Alternate History Novels and Stories
767 books — 1,293 voters
The Plot Against America by Philip RothThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Best Alternate History
358 books — 677 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
1,302 books — 4,509 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
1,166 books — 2,724 voters

Shōgun by James ClavellI, Claudius by Robert Graves
Best Historical Fiction
7,322 books — 25,532 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
8,330 books — 24,582 voters


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