Solaris by Stanisław LemRoadside Picnic by Arkady StrugatskyWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Futurological Congress by Stanisław LemTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Best European Science Fiction Books
255 books — 205 voters
Debt by David GraeberAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithThe Ascent of Money by Niall FergusonCapital by Karl MarxToo Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
The History of Money
73 books — 30 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Odyssey by Homer1984 by George OrwellThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan
182 books — 106 voters
The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. EvansThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerThe Third Reich in Power by Richard J. EvansThe Third Reich at War by Richard J. EvansInside Hitler's Bunker by Joachim Fest
Hitler, Nazism
78 books — 26 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellWitness by Whittaker ChambersThe Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. HayekThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Criticism of Socialism/Communism
160 books — 13 voters
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoFinnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceA Void by Georges PerecLife by Georges Perec
Anti-novel
113 books — 73 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonMiddlemarch by George EliotWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Naturalism and Realism
164 books — 23 voters
Paradise Lost by John MiltonTheological-Political Treatise by Baruch SpinozaThe Complete Essays by Michel de MontaignePamela by Samuel RichardsonAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
36 books — 6 voters

The Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
How we see the world
265 books — 142 voters

Sophie’s World by Jostein GaarderThe Republic by PlatoThe Story of Philosophy by Will DurantA History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand RussellSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Philosophy Introductions
219 books — 280 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul SartreThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Existential Fiction
442 books — 757 voters