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The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Last Olympian by Rick RiordanThe Odyssey by HomerThe Sea of Monsters by Rick RiordanThe Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
Best Books About Mythology
114th out of 1,403 books — 2,232 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A Postmodernist "Canon"
52nd out of 273 books — 172 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education
28th out of 98 books — 70 voters
TaoTuning by Adrian EmerySophie’s World by Jostein GaarderThe Republic by PlatoThe Story of Philosophy by Will DurantA History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Best Philosophy Introductions
36th out of 231 books — 353 voters

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy DebordThe Seminar of Jacques Lacan by Jacques LacanMythologies by Roland BarthesThe Sublime Object of Ideology (Phronesis by Slavoj ŽižekThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
r/CriticalTheory Recommended Reading
3rd out of 84 books — 22 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusEichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah ArendtThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
TLS The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the Second World War
34th out of 101 books — 88 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteWalden by Henry David ThoreauBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Guardian's Top 100 Non-Fiction Books
49th out of 102 books — 71 voters
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. SeussThe Cat in the Hat by Dr. SeussDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakOn the Road by Jack KerouacOn the Beach by Nevil Shute
Best Books 1957
19th out of 147 books — 39 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyLord of the Flies by William GoldingCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
483rd out of 1,197 books — 1,516 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
12632nd out of 78,325 books — 292,060 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Collection of Essays by George OrwellThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusArguably by Christopher Hitchens
Best/Favorite Books of Essays
58th out of 556 books — 249 voters
Who Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.Mythologies by Roland BarthesThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich EngelsThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter BenjaminCulture and Society, 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams
Critique of cultural studies from within.
2nd out of 109 books — 18 voters

Macbeth by William ShakespeareMatilda by Roald DahlMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsMort by Terry PratchettMadeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
One Word Titles - M
54th out of 415 books — 57 voters
Broadway General Manager by Peter BogyoIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankA Reminder of What Democracy Is by Gail WebsterThe Holy Bible by Anonymous
New York Times Best Nonfiction Books
27th out of 93 books — 81 voters

1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLes Misérables by Victor HugoHamlet by William Shakespeare
Best European Literature
228th out of 828 books — 307 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasLes Misérables by Victor HugoMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Classic French Literature
170th out of 345 books — 263 voters

Sexuality Beyond Consent by Avgi SaketopoulouCulture and Anarchy by Matthew ArnoldMythologies by Roland BarthesOn Being Awesome by Nick RiggleImagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
Books on Theory
3rd out of 201 books — 14 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
178th out of 329 books — 53 voters

The Arabian Nights by AnonymousThe Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian AndersenThe Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmThe Mabinogion by UnknownAesop’s Fables by Aesop
Actual Mythology (emp. children's)
14th out of 121 books — 18 voters
Egoists, a Book of Supermen by James HunekerThe Ego and Its Own by Max StirnerMythologies by Roland BarthesViolence by Slavoj ŽižekThe Unique and Its Property by Max Stirner
Spook Busting
3rd out of 41 books — 3 voters

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Republic by PlatoCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantMeditations by Marcus AureliusFrom Darkness Into Light by A. Helwa
Best World Philosophy Book
894th out of 955 books — 1,425 voters
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow WilsonEach Peach Pear Plum by Janet AhlbergOwl Babies by Martin WaddellThe 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. SeussThe Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Books with Ratings from 15,000 - 20,000
67th out of 264 books — 14 voters

The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserSavage Inequalities by Jonathan KozolThe Wordy Shipmates by Sarah VowellRelish by Lucy KnisleyWaiter Rant by Steve Dublanica
All Non-Fiction on Goodreads with 10,000 to 24,999 ratings
73rd out of 920 books — 39 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyBoot by Charles L. TempletonThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Counter-Culture of the 1960s (fiction and nonfiction)
108th out of 432 books — 185 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Must Read Non-Fiction
1900th out of 5,381 books — 4,925 voters
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria RilkeKing Lear by William Shakespeare
GRE Reading List
66th out of 169 books — 21 voters

Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan SontagA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoKaspar and Other Plays by Peter HandkeMythologies by Roland Barthes
Donald Barthelme's Reading List
5th out of 89 books — 2 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
2679th out of 7,878 books — 49,829 voters

K-punk by Mark FisherBlack and Blue Lives by Curtis ElmoreOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong24/7 by Jonathan CraryHeroes by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
Do Read This
67th out of 100 books — 2 voters
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellThe Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellBeowulf by UnknownMythos - The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen FryTao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY/FOLKLORE
86th out of 212 books — 12 voters

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