Purity and Danger by Mary DouglasSeeing Voices by Oliver SacksClock of the Long Now by Stewart BrandThis Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
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6,270 books — 8,165 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
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8,764 books — 25,712 voters
The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry PetroskiThe Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan
Books about Books
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