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I Am That by Nisargadatta MaharajThe Power of Now by Eckhart TolleTao Te Ching by Lao TzuA New Earth by Eckhart TolleThe Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
Best Books on Spiritual Enlightenment / Awakening
417 books — 459 voters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,262 books — 8,120 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieAngels & Demons by Dan BrownRebecca by Daphne du MaurierIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,445 books — 16,345 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best True Crime
1,455 books — 2,096 voters

Ficciones by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō AbeThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
100 Must-Read Works of Speculative Fiction In Translation
101 books — 63 voters
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best Books by Women of Color
630 books — 76 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe New York Trilogy by Paul AusterIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Fall by Albert Camus
Unconventional, Seductive, Intelligent and Dizzyingly Surreal
745 books — 389 voters
Cosmos by Carl SaganA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Loser by Thomas BernhardLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezHamlet by William Shakespeare
Your Top 5 Reads in 2014
1,603 books — 1,246 voters

The Complete Stories by Franz KafkaEnglish, August by Upamanyu ChatterjeeCosmos by Carl SaganA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Book Bucket "Top 10 Books" Challenge Compilation
1,080 books — 369 voters
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezHow to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby YoungTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Best Book Titles
12,147 books — 8,559 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,032 books — 900 voters
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
Best Existential Fiction
461 books — 784 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 585 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Satires
312 books — 499 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books on Loneliness
517 books — 498 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellCatch-22 by Joseph HellerA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Cult Classics
1,576 books — 2,138 voters

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Read Them Twice...At Least
14,335 books — 11,917 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Metafiction
443 books — 579 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,346 books — 4,662 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books Ever
78,216 books — 291,725 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,122 books — 1,826 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Twentieth Century American List
69 books — 27 voters

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick1984 by George OrwellJourney to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,712 books — 25,741 voters
The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan DoyleAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Locked Room Mysteries
190 books — 156 voters

After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Best Books About Japan
517 books — 359 voters