Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/9052302-burr-corley">Burr Corley</a> (54 Lists)

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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Best Kick-Ass Female Characters From YA and Children's Fantasy and Science Fiction

3,130 books — 8,721 voters

1984 by George Orwell

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Literature of ideas

50 books — 44 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

All Time Favorite Speculative Fiction

327 books — 133 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Neuromancer by William Gibson

My Essential Speculative Fiction Library

49 books — 41 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Philosophical Science Fiction

447 books — 433 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Best Speculative Fiction

260 books — 212 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Best Science Fiction

3,734 books — 7,195 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

The Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman

Fantasy Books Written for Adults

1,309 books — 1,625 voters

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Speculative Fiction that Passes the Bechdel Test

843 books — 831 voters

1984 by George Orwell

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Animal Farm / 1984 by George Orwell

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Best Philosophical Literature

1,184 books — 2,782 voters

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,258 books — 2,431 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Holy Bible by Anonymous

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value

8,081 books — 5,781 voters

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Our Dumb Century by Scott Dikkers

Best Humorous Books

4,360 books — 7,972 voters

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Iron Heel by Jack London

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

1,220 books — 2,768 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Best Books of the Decade: 1960s

1,363 books — 1,776 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Best Books of the Decade: 1950s

1,185 books — 1,510 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

Best Books of the Decade: 1940s

821 books — 1,146 voters

Burmese Days by George Orwell

Best Books of the Decade: 1930s

907 books — 1,256 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Best Books of the Decade: 1920s

765 books — 1,131 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Dubliners by James Joyce

Best Books of the Decade: 1910s

530 books — 777 voters

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Sea Wolf by Jack London

Best Books of the Decade: 1900s

473 books — 857 voters

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Best Books of the 14th Century

63 books — 354 voters

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Best Books of the 16th Century

192 books — 545 voters

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Othello by William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Best Books of the 17th Century

326 books — 706 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,719 books — 6,886 voters

1984 by George Orwell

If You Like The Hunger Games Then You Will Like……

738 books — 2,004 voters

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Funniest Novels of All Time

1,428 books — 2,343 voters

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)

1,173 books — 2,295 voters

The Trial by Franz Kafka

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Books that make you think.

1,131 books — 1,117 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,848 books — 22,147 voters

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