The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsGood Omens by Terry PratchettMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Humorous Books
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Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyUlysses by James JoyceCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Books Ever
77,862 books — 290,536 voters

Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David ThoreauThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterThe Blind Watchmaker by Richard DawkinsThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,314 books — 1,441 voters
Moral Politics by George LakoffThe Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonRights of Man by Thomas PaineThe Republican War on Science by Chris C. MooneyRepublic, Lost by Lawrence Lessig
Best Progressive Reads
1,069 books — 724 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,448 books — 69,715 voters
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. SeussInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceHow the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,578 books — 18,686 voters

The Odyssey by HomerHamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Iliad by HomerRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Great Books: No Novels Need Apply
457 books — 123 voters
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Best Books of the 20th Century
7,888 books — 49,807 voters

Refactoring by Martin FowlerDesign Patterns by Erich GammaThe Practice of Programming by Brian W. KernighanStructure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson
Best programming books
60 books — 39 voters