Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingFooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas TalebTo Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles by Raymond M. SmullyanThe Lady or the Tiger? And Other Logic Puzzles by Raymond M. Smullyan
Best Books About Mathematics
449 books — 667 voters
House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiAnimal Farm by George OrwellCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Weird Fiction Books
1,200 books — 1,093 voters

King Lear by William Shakespeare
Best Plays Ever
853 books — 1,129 voters

And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu TakagiThe Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr
Locked Room Mysteries
161 books — 151 voters
Permutation City by Greg EganStories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
best hard science fiction
391 books — 717 voters

The Trial by Franz KafkaNotes from the Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō AbeNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
How we see the world
269 books — 144 voters

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Best Cognitive Science Books
408 books — 492 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
Latin American Fiction
865 books — 1,158 voters

1984 by George Orwell
Thought Provoking
2,874 books — 1,490 voters
House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienMolloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel BeckettKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Weirdest Books Ever
1,187 books — 1,183 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Favorite World Fiction & Literature
733 books — 434 voters
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami1984 by George OrwellOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Trippy Books
848 books — 899 voters

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Best Feminist Fiction
1,500 books — 2,674 voters

1984 by George OrwellCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Favorite Books
14,408 books — 10,024 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Books that leave you disturbed
557 books — 515 voters
1984 by George OrwellLolita by Vladimir NabokovAnimal Farm by George OrwellHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiThe Stranger by Albert Camus
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,214 books — 11,324 voters

1984 by George OrwellLolita by Vladimir NabokovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Evil Inside
469 books — 190 voters
1984 by George OrwellLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesStories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Philosophical Science Fiction
427 books — 397 voters

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Thrillers
4,609 books — 5,608 voters
To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,255 books — 5,228 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyFathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,874 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Ending
8,031 books — 6,080 voters


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