The Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwinالقرآن الكريم by AnonymousThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Most Influential Books
58th out of 1,462 books — 5,289 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
67th out of 924 books — 2,379 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1385th out of 31,966 books — 121,369 voters
The Constitution of the United States of America by Founding FathersThe Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding FathersThe Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnCollected Writings by Thomas Paine
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
46th out of 942 books — 1,098 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood1984 by George OrwellThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Post-Trump Big Questions Canon
39th out of 521 books — 275 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
A Journey Through Literary America
38th out of 155 books — 222 voters

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David ThoreauThe Long Loneliness by Dorothy DayLetter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.Non-Violent Resistance by Mahatma GandhiAcross That Bridge by John             Lewis
Civil Disobedients
1st out of 78 books — 19 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySiddhartha by Hermann HesseTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Books that make you think.
127th out of 1,131 books — 1,106 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Republic by PlatoAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Books Inclined To Stimulate Your Mind
11th out of 104 books — 35 voters
Theory of People by Jakub LasakThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouReform or Revolution & Other Writings by Rosa LuxemburgLong Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
The Revolution Starts Here
20th out of 135 books — 91 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Books Ever
23016th out of 76,963 books — 286,433 voters
The Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxDas Kapital by Karl MarxThe State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilich LeninReform or Revolution by Rosa LuxemburgSocialism by Friedrich Engels
Socialist Classics
110th out of 420 books — 326 voters

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweTwelve Years a Slave by Solomon NorthupU.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding FathersThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin FranklinCommon Sense by Thomas Paine
Primary Sources in American History
11th out of 160 books — 29 voters
The Green Mile by Stephen  KingDifferent Seasons by Stephen  KingPapillon by Henri CharrièreThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Prison Books
69th out of 528 books — 247 voters

Journey to the West by Biao  WangTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Books you must read to be considered well read
41st out of 184 books — 49 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyDracula by Bram StokerJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
LibriVox Audiobooks
108th out of 173 books — 64 voters

The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XU.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding FathersThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best Popular Nonfiction Politics Books on Goodreads
404th out of 426 books — 49 voters
The Republic by PlatoLetters from a Stoic by SenecaThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliMeditations by Marcus AureliusBeyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Best Popular Philosophy Books on Goodreads
199th out of 332 books — 52 voters

Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret FullerCivil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David ThoreauWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauSelf-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Essential Margaret Fuller by Margaret Fuller
Brook Farm
2nd out of 28 books — 3 voters
The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Republic by PlatoSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovHonor and Polygamy by Omar Farhad
Politics
142nd out of 493 books — 463 voters

The Hydra by Bernard EvslinOff-Topic by G.R. ReaderThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayNon Censure (Memoires - Temoignages - Biographies) by Ute LemperThe Goodreads Killer by Dave Franklin
Books I Wish I Hadn't Experienced
13th out of 208 books — 27 voters

Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerCivil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David ThoreauOn Tyranny by Timothy SnyderHomage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Defying Authority
2nd out of 4 books — 1 voter
Ready Player One by Ernest ClineRoom by Emma DonoghueWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Text-Only Covers
306th out of 403 books — 45 voters

Père Goriot by Honoré de BalzacLaughter by Henri BergsonSongs of Innocence and of Experience by William BlakeSentimental Education by Gustave FlaubertThe Immoralist by André Gide
Key Masterpieces
74th out of 87 books — 2 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan PoeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A good list of classics
45th out of 100 books — 2 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryMy Family and Other Animals by Gerald DurrellThe Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love by Jill Conner BrowneKon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Choose something different
120th out of 133 books — 14 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
1001st out of 1,717 books — 6,885 voters

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