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

3,334 books — 8,924 voters

1984 by George Orwell

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Literature of ideas

51 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

329 books — 136 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Neuromancer by William Gibson

My Essential Speculative Fiction Library

49 books — 40 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

489 books — 503 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

274 books — 269 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

3,899 books — 8,133 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

1,363 books — 1,726 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

859 books — 859 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

1,224 books — 2,823 voters

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

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

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,320 books — 2,449 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

8,101 books — 5,870 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

4,497 books — 8,325 voters

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Iron Heel by Jack London

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

1,247 books — 2,834 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

1,404 books — 1,784 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

1,165 books — 1,526 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

815 books — 1,160 voters

Burmese Days by George Orwell

Best Books of the Decade: 1930s

876 books — 1,267 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

758 books — 1,136 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

524 books — 780 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

480 books — 867 voters

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Best Books of the 14th Century

63 books — 357 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

189 books — 548 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

334 books — 714 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

1,744 books — 6,936 voters

1984 by George Orwell

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

748 books — 2,031 voters

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Funniest Novels of All Time

1,458 books — 2,336 voters

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)

1,261 books — 2,645 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.

1,184 books — 1,233 voters

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

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,826 books — 22,701 voters

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