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High Fidelity by Nick HornbyPlease Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithCash by Johnny CashShout! by Philip Norman
Best Books on Rock and Roll
907 books — 1,286 voters
Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandFreedom by Jonathan FranzenA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,753 books — 14,424 voters

The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding FathersCollected Writings by Thomas PaineA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Conscience of a Liberal by Paul KrugmanAtlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
954 books — 1,120 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareOthello by William Shakespeare
Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time
418 books — 439 voters

Shakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. EliotThe Complete Poems by William BlakeThe Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose by T.S. EliotThe Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert Frost
Goodreads Top 100 Poems of All Time
279 books — 297 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books Ever
78,955 books — 294,006 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,753 books — 6,913 voters
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings by Thomas PaineGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftU.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding FathersSongs of Innocence and of Experience by William BlakeThe Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding Fathers
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,011 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraParadise Lost by John Milton
Best Books of the 17th Century
333 books — 708 voters
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareKing Henry IV, Part 1 by William ShakespeareKing Henry VI, Part 2 by William ShakespeareKing Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
190 books — 544 voters

The Shipping News by Annie ProulxChicken Soup for the Soul by Jack CanfieldTwilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Worst Books of All Time
8,117 books — 19,900 voters
Dune by Frank HerbertFoundation by Isaac AsimovStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinSnow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,764 books — 25,824 voters