The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithMaking Rounds with Oscar by David DosaThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Books Written by Physicians
194 books — 82 voters

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1984 by George OrwellOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAn Inconvenient Truth by Al GoreAnimal Liberation by Peter Singer
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,854 books — 121,127 voters
An Inconvenient Truth by Al GoreThe Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynRush to Judgment by Mark Lane
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,239 books — 8,067 voters

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynInvisible Allies by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynKolyma Tales by Varlam ShalamovGraphite by Varlam Shalamov
Russian Social History
292 books — 87 voters
A Night to Remember by Walter LordThe Night Lives On by Walter LordTitanic Survivor by Violet JessopTitanic - A Survivor's Story by Archibald Gracie
Best Titanic Books
169 books — 229 voters

The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream by G.C. EdmondsonThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsTimeline by Michael CrichtonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Time and Again by Jack Finney
Best Time Travel Fiction
2,001 books — 5,286 voters
Gallows Thief by Bernard CornwellSharpe's Eagle by Bernard CornwellFlashman by George MacDonald Fraser
Best Historical Fiction
7,448 books — 25,643 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeMy Family and Other Animals by Gerald DurrellThe Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. ChestertonAdolf Hitler by Spike Milligan
Best Humor Writing
840 books — 889 voters
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersShadow of a Broken Man by George C. ChesbroFletch by Gregory McDonaldKennedy for the Defense by George V. HigginsBurglars Can't Be Choosers by Lawrence Block
Favorite Mystery Series
420 books — 137 voters

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1984 by George OrwellOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,788 voters
Martians, Go Home by Fredric BrownMindswap by Robert SheckleyThe Asutra by Jack VanceThe Anome by Jack VanceThe Brave Free Men by Jack Vance
Most Under-rated Science Fiction
2,090 books — 2,214 voters

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynStalingrad by Antony BeevorAlexander Dolgun's story by Alexander DolgunThe Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis
Best Russian History Books
561 books — 386 voters

A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius RyanThe First and the Last by Adolf GallandGiven Up for Dead by Bill SloanPacific Alamo by John WukovitsBataan by John W.  Whitman
Military History
927 books — 394 voters
Dewey by Vicki MyronOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. EliotThe Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland AmoryMaking Rounds with Oscar by David DosaCat by B. Kliban
Great Cat Books
1,580 books — 948 voters

The Fallible Fiend by L. Sprague de CampThe Ship That Sailed the Time Stream by G.C. EdmondsonThe Mathematics of Magic by L. Sprague de CampThe Secret People by John WyndhamInkheart by Cornelia Funke
Fantasy Books Set in Two Worlds
668 books — 632 voters
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynCancer Ward by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,281 voters

Night by Elie WieselSchindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyThe Devil's Arithmetic by Jane YolenSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo LeviBriar Rose by Jane Yolen
Well-Written Holocaust Books
894 books — 2,890 voters
Spandau by Albert SpeerAdolf Hitler by Spike Milligan'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?' by Spike MilliganNight by Elie Wiesel
World War II Memoirs
360 books — 182 voters

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynA Night to Remember by Walter LordThe Arabian Nights by AnonymousSeven Years in Tibet by Heinrich HarrerMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Time Passages
1,212 books — 70 voters


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