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Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Most Depressing Book of All Time
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Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
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Macbeth by William ShakespeareThe Crucible by Arthur MillerKing Lear by William ShakespeareOedipus Rex by SophoclesJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Best Play Ever
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Stranger by Albert CamusCandide by VoltaireThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxThe Fall by Albert Camus
Best French Literature
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Top Romance Novels of All Time
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Common Sense by Thomas Paine
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Philosophical Literature
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Book My Father Gave Me
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The Art of War by Sun TzuThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Most Influential Books
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Vonnegut's Best
37 books — 629 voters

Fool by Christopher MooreSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeCandide by VoltaireThree Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
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4,399 books — 8,027 voters
The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy
Best Southern Literature
1,373 books — 2,589 voters

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayNight by Elie WieselTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Most Difficult Novels
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