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1984 by George OrwellAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Top of the Pile
44 books — 19 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteBella Tuscany by Frances MayesUnder the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
The Last 10 Nonfiction Books I Read
2,980 books — 1,125 voters

Journey Beyond Tomorrow by Robert Sheckley
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
256 books — 24 voters
The Dante Club by Matthew PearlHumboldt's Gift by Saul BellowHerzog by Saul Bellow
Writers Who Write About Writers
378 books — 106 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Republic by PlatoBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Works of Fiction Every Philosophy Student Should Read
140 books — 74 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienRebecca by Daphne du MaurierCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyI, Claudius by Robert Graves
Six Stars
1,509 books — 757 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusAlice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe City and the Stars by Arthur C. ClarkeRabbit, Run by John UpdikeThe Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Stars and Stripes
212 books — 38 voters
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneFrom the Earth to the Moon by Jules VerneJourney to the Center of the Earth by Jules VerneMiss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg
Best European Science Fiction Books
253 books — 204 voters

The Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Illustrated Man by Ray BradburyThe Past Through Tomorrow by Robert A. HeinleinThe October Country by Ray BradburyOrsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Science Fiction Anthologies/Collections
530 books — 253 voters
Candide by VoltaireThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusDas Kapital by Karl Marx
Best World Philosophy Book
957 books — 1,422 voters

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore CooperThe Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise ErdrichOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Native American Fiction
837 books — 638 voters
The Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDas Kapital by Karl Marx
A Heady Brew - Weimar Germany (1918-1933)
125 books — 33 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodCat’s Eye by Margaret AtwoodMaster & Commander by Patrick O'BrianBrick Lane by Monica Ali
Non-Winners of the Man Booker
274 books — 244 voters
Little Women by Louisa May AlcottJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëEmma by Jane AustenHowards End by E.M. ForsterThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Novels of Domestic Life
423 books — 140 voters

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,064 books — 890 voters
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Stranger by Albert CamusInfidel by Ayaan Hirsi AliThe Constant Gardener by John Le Carré
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,746 books — 1,608 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownThe Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel
What was I thinking?
206 books — 55 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Out in the Cold
298 books — 125 voters

Collected Writings by Thomas PaineDemocracy in America by Alexis de TocquevilleThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliProfiles in Courage by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
938 books — 1,097 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayAll Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotGibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S. Tepper
Titles that play on earlier titles and sayings
265 books — 40 voters

The Puppet Masters by Robert A. HeinleinContact by Carl SaganClose Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven SpielbergThe Gods Themselves by Isaac AsimovThe Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Aliens Among Us
277 books — 240 voters
Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauHuman, All Too Human by Friedrich NietzscheEssays and Lectures by Ralph Waldo EmersonSmall Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
Best/Favorite Books of Essays
552 books — 247 voters

OX by Piers Anthony
T is for Title
149 books — 43 voters
Most Under-rated Science Fiction
2,019 books — 2,065 voters

The End of the Hunt by Thomas FlanaganA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Tenants of Time by Thomas FlanaganThe Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
The Troubles--Irish Revolution in Fact and Fiction
109 books — 69 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Masks We Hide Behind
201 books — 98 voters

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftThe Wonderful World of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Geofiction: World building for the love of it
167 books — 52 voters
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynGorky Park by Martin Cruz SmithDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe Russia House by John Le CarréCancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
History through Novels: 1900s/2000s Russia
67 books — 66 voters

Three Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonLost Horizon by James HiltonCaravans by James A. MichenerInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
TREKKING THE 'STANS
85 books — 60 voters
I, Robot by Isaac AsimovCollapse by Jared DiamondSnow Crash by Neal StephensonEinstein’s Dreams by Alan LightmanOut of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
SCIENCE & LITERATURE--Together at Last
245 books — 115 voters