Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Oceans, Water, Ice
721 books — 175 voters
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy FarmerCity of the Beasts by Isabel Allende1984 by George Orwell
Best Books for Teen Boys
1,453 books — 1,569 voters

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Children's books I wish I read as a kid
509 books — 388 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Books that Changed the Way You View Life
10,626 books — 6,162 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert1984 by George OrwellDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Best Science Fiction
3,899 books — 8,133 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Thickest Books Ever
895 books — 2,495 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Best Series
3,727 books — 9,955 voters
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneKon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Nautical Tales
813 books — 407 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyNever Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Best Environmental Books
1,119 books — 1,292 voters
The Call of the Wild by Jack LondonAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Most influential books under 100 pages
300 books — 997 voters

The Backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan
Best Sustainability Nonfiction
424 books — 334 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
(good!) Hipster Literature
129 books — 246 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldNever Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Some Great Books on Nature
264 books — 226 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Funniest Novels of All Time
1,458 books — 2,336 voters

The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters
Best Cookbooks
1,487 books — 1,175 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceUlysses by James JoyceThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Pompous Books to Read in Public
270 books — 161 voters

Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Essential Man's Library
326 books — 123 voters
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Best Biographies
1,837 books — 3,276 voters

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider HaggardInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerKon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Tales of Adventure
516 books — 477 voters
Watchmen by Alan MooreV for Vendetta by Alan Moore
500 Essential Graphic Novels
941 books — 880 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
This Is the End...
1,017 books — 1,608 voters
1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickV for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Best Dystopian Originals
100 books — 116 voters


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