The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderManufacturing Consent by Edward S. HermanWhat's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas  Frank
Best Progressive Reads
1,074 books — 730 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoA Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Let's Shake It Up A Bit
978 books — 615 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Literary Fiction, 700+ pages
106 books — 99 voters
House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiUlysses by James JoyceNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsPale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,122 books — 1,842 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Complete Works of Shakespeare [38 plays, 4 poems, sonnets] by William ShakespeareCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyGreat Expectations by Charles DickensGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
If I Were Stranded On a Desert Island...
1,203 books — 431 voters
The City & the City by China MiévillePerdido Street Station by China MiévilleThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Best 21st Century SF
151 books — 86 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
100 Best American Authors
754 books — 617 voters
Howl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Major Works by Samuel Taylor ColeridgePoetry and Designs by William Blake
Poetry
945 books — 497 voters

Howl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanSongs of Innocence and of Experience by William BlakeParadise Lost by John MiltonThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Best Poetry Books
3,073 books — 2,608 voters
Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonFinnegans Wake by James JoyceCrooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
Weirdest Books Ever
1,184 books — 1,196 voters

Snow Crash by Neal StephensonA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienGood Omens by Terry PratchettThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Reddit Recommendations
581 books — 761 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
World War II Fiction
1,478 books — 2,207 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Known Unfinished Novels/Series
62 books — 81 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Russian Literature
522 books — 2,308 voters
The Call of the Wild by Jack LondonAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best One Day- Easy- Reads
214 books — 57 voters

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenCosmos by Carl SaganHomage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,270 books — 8,165 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The 800+ page Gorillaz
459 books — 518 voters

The Holy Bible by AnonymousBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,300 books — 11,656 voters
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard DawkinsThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
On Evolution - Love It Or Hate It
202 books — 106 voters

Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsJunky by William S. BurroughsTropic of Cancer by Henry MillerJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineCities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
Cult Classics
1,576 books — 2,154 voters
From Hell by Alan Moore
Best Graphic Novels and Comic Books
994 books — 602 voters

Cosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsThe Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,929 books — 3,628 voters
Post Office by Charles BukowskiThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayThe Rum Diary by Hunter S. ThompsonJohn Barleycorn by Jack LondonUnder the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Drunken Masters
285 books — 378 voters

The Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
3,163 books — 10,144 voters
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorBeowulf by UnknownThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien1984 by George Orwell
Must Read Classics
1,881 books — 4,732 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienEast of Eden by John SteinbeckAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Odyssey by HomerJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,876 books — 7,000 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonNaked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Most Difficult Novels
598 books — 2,064 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsUbik by Philip K. Dick
Now That's REALLY Freakin' Weird...
715 books — 554 voters


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