Nevermore by James  Patterson
Worst Ending
269 books — 561 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
2,997 books — 2,479 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
270 books — 537 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyUlysses by James Joyce
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,886 books — 49,792 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Difficult Reading
106 books — 100 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
1,873 books — 6,996 voters
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,175 books — 2,440 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
98 books — 29 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
1,390 books — 1,520 voters
Absalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,354 books — 2,576 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James Joyce
Most Difficult Novels
592 books — 2,048 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
251 books — 922 voters

The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 545 voters
Paradise Lost by John MiltonMacbeth by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareSecond Treatise of Government by John Locke
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 706 voters

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest HemingwayDubliners by James Joyce
Collections of Short Stories
2,900 books — 2,043 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
1,285 books — 865 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
400 books — 347 voters
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,888 books — 10,618 voters

The Republic by PlatoCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thought Provoking Books
532 books — 364 voters

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,221 books — 6,122 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,719 books — 6,886 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
4,438 books — 7,449 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
11,933 books — 8,233 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
7,353 books — 15,954 voters
Words of Radiance by Brandon SandersonThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonMistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere Books
39 books — 103 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
1,630 books — 1,913 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
889 books — 2,487 voters


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