Nevermore by James  Patterson
Worst Ending
269 books — 562 voters
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotParadise Lost by John MiltonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson100 Selected Poems by E.E. CummingsThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Best Poetry Books
3,077 books — 2,685 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Better Than Food Books
210 books — 41 voters
The Holy Bible by Anonymous
Best Holy Books
289 books — 579 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyUlysses by James Joyce
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,880 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Difficult Reading
106 books — 101 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,878 books — 7,005 voters
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,262 books — 2,619 voters

The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis
The Worst Fantasy Books of ALL Time
188 books — 150 voters
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
The Realities of War
100 books — 25 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Best Westerns
1,477 books — 1,636 voters
Absalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,410 books — 2,699 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James Joyce
Most Difficult Novels
601 books — 2,065 voters
Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses by Martin LutherThe Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the U... by Founding FathersThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Art of War by Sun TzuThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Most influential books under 100 pages
292 books — 986 voters

The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
189 books — 547 voters
Paradise Lost by John MiltonMacbeth by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareSecond Treatise of Government by John Locke
Best Books of the 17th Century
334 books — 713 voters

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest HemingwayDubliners by James Joyce
Collections of Short Stories
2,975 books — 2,094 voters
Mere Christianity by C.S. LewisParadise Lost by John MiltonThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Essential Kierkegaard by Søren KierkegaardThe Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Christian Intellect
1,436 books — 937 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Call of the Wild by Jack London
Unique Narrators
402 books — 352 voters
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
What Book Got You Hooked?
4,017 books — 10,985 voters

The Republic by PlatoCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thought Provoking Books
527 books — 302 voters

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,227 books — 6,115 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,744 books — 6,932 voters

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel SilversteinWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakThe Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler WarnerGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussMy Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Favorite books from my childhood
4,522 books — 7,730 voters
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerIn God We Trust by Jean Shepherd
Best Book Titles
12,328 books — 8,742 voters

And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,509 books — 16,606 voters
Words of Radiance by Brandon SandersonThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonMistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere Books
40 books — 106 voters

Words of Radiance by Brandon SandersonThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonRed Rising by Pierce BrownFool's Assassin by Robin Hobb
Best Fantasy of the 2010s
1,703 books — 1,925 voters
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonA Storm of Swords by George R.R. MartinA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Thickest Books Ever
895 books — 2,495 voters


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