A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books Ever
76,789 books — 285,714 voters
Night Stalker by Philip Carlo
Best True Crime
1,354 books — 1,926 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Most influential books under 100 pages
251 books — 922 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Books White People Need to Read
1,329 books — 1,575 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy1984 by George OrwellThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,777 books — 26,037 voters
World War Z by Max Brooks
Zombies!
1,673 books — 4,325 voters

World War Z by Max BrooksThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Horror Novels
2,087 books — 5,458 voters
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,214 books — 11,355 voters

The Plague by Albert CamusThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,768 books — 1,647 voters
The Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangHiroshima by John HerseyKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Best History Books
3,740 books — 3,770 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell1984 by George OrwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,849 books — 121,114 voters