Fate Is the Hunter by Ernest K. GannWind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryWest with the Night by Beryl MarkhamThe Right Stuff by Tom WolfeCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Aviation Books
392 books — 179 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
747 books — 1,812 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,203 books — 28,366 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellStuart Little by E.B. WhitePippi Långstrump by Astrid LindgrenBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Best Books 1945
58 books — 43 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Masters Of Misery
407 books — 99 voters
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard RhodesCommand and Control by Eric SchlosserHiroshima by John HerseyAmerican Prometheus by Kai BirdVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
History of the Nuclear Age
230 books — 82 voters

1984 by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Books for Smart People
716 books — 144 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Dystopia!
1,217 books — 2,761 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of New York City
1,502 books — 1,213 voters

The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerCirce by Madeline MillerThe Persian Boy by Mary RenaultFire from Heaven by Mary RenaultI, Claudius by Robert Graves
Historical Fiction on Greece and Rome
269 books — 264 voters
The Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. RoseA Desperate Fortune by Susanna KearsleyMademoiselle Chanel by C.W. GortnerThe Last Queen of India by Michelle    Moran
Historical Fiction 2015
385 books — 2,089 voters