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Hiroshima by John HerseyThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Gunslinger by Stephen King
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,834 books — 10,469 voters
Life by Georges Perec
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,836 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast
64 books — 65 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best of Fyodor Dostoevsky
31 books — 107 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,872 voters
La mare au diable by George SandLes Misérables by Victor HugoDead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Dostoevskiana
70 books — 38 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,044 voters
2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick1984 by George OrwellNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,330 books — 24,580 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
15,145 books — 17,354 voters
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoSteppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,105 books — 1,719 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Postmodern Genius
508 books — 584 voters
Hegemony or Survival by Noam ChomskyA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
934 books — 1,097 voters

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
924 books — 2,382 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky1984 by George Orwell
Best Books Ever
75,837 books — 281,802 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,814 books — 49,784 voters
The Bald Soprano and Other Plays by Eugène IonescoThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1984 by George Orwell
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
101 books — 479 voters

Storm & Sorrow in the High Pamirs by Robert W. Craig
Climbing and Mountaineering
215 books — 170 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonCosmos by Carl Sagan
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,836 books — 3,595 voters

All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick BraggSuttree by Cormac McCarthy
White Trash Literature
191 books — 52 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,857 books — 21,934 voters

Suttree by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthyOuter Dark by Cormac McCarthy
Best Cormac McCarthy Books
17 books — 182 voters
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiA Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki MurakamiHear the Wind Sing by Haruki MurakamiPinball, 1973 by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Best Haruki Murakami Books
25 books — 838 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best French Literature
870 books — 1,553 voters