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
3,039 books — 2,616 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 — 637 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyUlysses by James Joyce
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,817 books — 49,849 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 — 7,001 voters
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,247 books — 2,604 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
1,441 books — 1,628 voters
Absalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,394 books — 2,611 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James Joyce
Most Difficult Novels
600 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
287 books — 976 voters

The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
189 books — 544 voters
Paradise Lost by John MiltonMacbeth by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareSecond Treatise of Government by John Locke
Best Books of the 17th Century
333 books — 709 voters

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest HemingwayDubliners by James Joyce
Collections of Short Stories
2,938 books — 2,079 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
1,422 books — 920 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 — 349 voters
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
What Book Got You Hooked?
4,001 books — 10,872 voters

The Republic by PlatoCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thought Provoking Books
533 books — 365 voters

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,219 books — 6,115 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,739 books — 6,914 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
4,519 books — 7,714 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
12,312 books — 8,666 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
7,482 books — 16,392 voters
Words of Radiance by Brandon SandersonThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonMistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere Books
39 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 — 1,917 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
893 books — 2,489 voters


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