Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/51124103-ben-mayson">Ben Mayson</a> (8 Lists)

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1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Best Social and Political Satires

517 books — 588 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

Africa (fiction and nonfiction)

1,895 books — 1,778 voters

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Must-Read Personal Accounts

274 books — 213 voters

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Best Books Ever

79,078 books — 294,814 voters

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

The World According to Garp by John Irving

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,856 books — 124,773 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,838 books — 22,499 voters

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Most Compelling Memoirs

285 books — 167 voters

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

Alive by Piers Paul Read

Vicarious Thrills

425 books — 454 voters