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Best Philosophical Literature
1,205 books — 2,865 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,874 books — 49,839 voters

The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 by Christopher HillThe Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
Best books on history and culture.
138 books — 110 voters
The Marx-Engels Reader by Karl MarxThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
Sociology
64 books — 14 voters

Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelHegel by Theodor W. AdornoReading Capital by Louis AlthusserThe Jargon of Authenticity by Theodor W. AdornoThe Adorno Reader by Brian O'Connor
Critical Theory
84 books — 37 voters
The Presocratic Philosophers by Geoffrey S. KirkThe First Philosophers by Robin WaterfieldAn Introduction to Plato's Republic by Julia Annas
Ancient Greek Philosophy - Best Secondary Literature
43 books — 13 voters

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Amazing political and philosophy books
85 books — 89 voters
The Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraUlysses by James Joyce
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
100 books — 1,709 voters

The Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackeraySelected Poems by William BlakeThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Best British and Irish Literature
1,175 books — 1,117 voters
The Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Prose Edda by Snorri SturlusonMetamorphoses by Ovid
Best Books About Mythology
1,403 books — 2,235 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonMalone Dies by Samuel BeckettThe Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
Most Difficult Novels
598 books — 2,063 voters
The Histories by HerodotusThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonThe Making of the English Working Class by E.P. ThompsonHistory of the Peloponnesian War by ThucydidesThe Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 by Christopher Hill
Best History Books
3,985 books — 4,390 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Best Antiheroes
701 books — 584 voters
Ethics by Baruch SpinozaDiscourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology by Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizDiscourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by René DescartesLeviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Best Books of the 17th Century
333 books — 708 voters

The Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Republic by PlatoThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,694 books — 124,225 voters
Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelUlysses by James JoyceÉcrits by Jacques LacanDifference and Repetition by Gilles DeleuzeOf Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
262 books — 368 voters