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In a Holidaze by Christina LaurenHenry the Queen’s Corgi by Georgie CrawleyThe Thirteen Days of Christmas by Jenny OvertonArthur's Perfect Christmas by Marc BrownA Pride Christmas in Brooklyn by Shelly Laurenston
Contemporary Gift Book Ideas
5,201 books — 1,467 voters
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Fountainhead by Ayn RandThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganThe Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Critical Thinking
198 books — 136 voters

The Western Canon by Harold BloomIlluminations by Walter BenjaminAspects of the Novel by E.M. ForsterPoetics by AristotleWhy Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Works of Literary Criticism
463 books — 107 voters
Let's Talk About Love by Carl WilsonIn the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Kim CooperExile on Main Street by Bill JanovitzDummy by R.J. WheatonDusty in Memphis by Warren Zanes
33⅓
139 books — 67 voters

Dracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Norton Critical Editions
345 books — 61 voters
Irreversible Damage by Abigail ShrierTrans by Helen JoyceThe End of Gender by Debra SohMaterial Girls by Kathleen StockThe Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
Transgender Critical
152 books — 54 voters

Live from New York by Tom ShalesThe Revolution Was Televised by Alan SepinwallBreaking Bad by David ThomsonGolden Girls Forever by Jim ColucciI Want My MTV by Craig Marks
Books about TV
291 books — 50 voters
Choosing Theo by Victoria AvelineGrim by M.K. EidemStolen by an Alien by Amanda MiloLord of the Storm by Justine DavisEyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold by Ellen O'Connell
Hero Considered Less Than
94 books — 38 voters

Caste by Isabel WilkersonHappiness Becomes You by Tina TurnerOverground Railroad by Candacy A. TaylorOur Time Is Now by Stacey AbramsWandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins
2020 Nonfiction Books by African-Americans
109 books — 34 voters
Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonFour Hundred Souls by Ibram X. KendiYou'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber RuffinStuck Improving by Decoteau J. IrbySomebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
2021 Nonfiction Books by African-Americans
154 books — 33 voters

The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark FrostThe Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer LynchTwin Peaks by Mark FrostReflections by Brad Dukes"Diane..." - The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper by Scott Frost
MARK FROST & DAVID LYNCH'S TWIN PEAKS ^◊^
55 books — 26 voters
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. GreenSee Me Naked by Tara T. GreenYou Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale HurstonFinding Me by Viola DavisBlack Flora by Teresa J. Speight
2022 Nonfiction Books by African-Americans
111 books — 16 voters

Grunt by Mary RoachSpy... for Nobody! by Basel Saneebجاسوس من أجل لا أحد by Basel SaneebHamilton by Lin-Manuel MirandaThe Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth
Non-Fiction Listed on LitHub's Bookmarks --Part III
102 books — 13 voters
Sim One by Tom AhernBig Book of Unique Names for Characters by Aimard R.MaknedaFiction à la Carte by Paska D.The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela AckermanHow Fiction Works by James Wood
Writing
36 books — 13 voters

Twisty Little Passages by Nick MontfortWriting Interactive Fiction With Twine by Melissa FordThe Craft of Adventure by Graham NelsonThe Spectrum of Adventure by Thomas A. ChristieThe Inform Designer's Manual by Graham Nelson
Text Adventures/Interactive Fiction
50 books — 12 voters
Loose Lips Sink Ships by Hilary LawrenceThis Is Not the Jess Show by Anna CareyMuted by Mss Tami CharlesThe Princess Diaries by Meg CabotLegends of Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke
Juvenile Fiction: The Price of Fame or Stardom
136 books — 9 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldSecond Reading by Jonathan YardleyThe Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Jonathan Yardley's Second Readings
99 books — 8 voters
What Comes After Farce by Hal FosterPotential History by Ariella Aïsha AzoulayWhat Art Is by Arthur C. DantoWhat Is Art? by Leo TolstoyArt by Clive Bell
Art Philosophy Books
97 books — 6 voters

Becoming Ms. Burton by Susan BurtonAfrican-American Inventions That Changed The World by Michael A. CarsonFrederick Douglass in Brooklyn by Frederick DouglassMy Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott KingThe Meaning of Michelle by Veronica Chambers
2017 Nonfiction Books by African-Americans
54 books — 5 voters
"A Hideous Bit of Morbidity" by Jason ColavitoItalian Horror Films of the 1960s by Lawrence McCallumWar On Critics by Theodore L. ShawResonating Reflex A Critical Investigation Of The Physical An... by John RuddA Contract with God and Other Stories of Dropsie Avenue by Will Eisner
'Critic'
167 books — 5 voters

African American Literary Theory by Winston NapierThe Signifying Monkey by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance by Houston A. Baker Jr.What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth W. WarrenThe Black Aesthetic Unbound by April C.E. Langley
Literary Criticism on African-American Work
30 books — 4 voters
"A Hideous Bit of Morbidity" by Jason ColavitoA Critical History of Old English Literature by Stanley B. GreenfieldComedy by Robert W. CorriganAn Aristocracy of Critics by Stephen BatesCritical Enthusiasm by Jordana Rosenberg
"Critic"
104 books — 4 voters

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the F... by Charles BukowskiNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Cat Inside by William S. BurroughsA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence FerlinghettiOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Best Books by Bukowski and the Beats
104 books — 4 voters
Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath by James McNaughtonParisian Lives by Deirdre BairThe Philosophy of Samuel Beckett by John CalderSamuel Beckett and Music by Mary BrydenSamuel Beckett by Deirdre Bair
Beckettiae
49 books — 3 voters

The Poetics of Murder by Glenn W. MostHow to Write a Mystery by Lee ChildAngel of Death by Brian O'HareCritical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction by Carl RollysonGardening Can Be Murder by Marta McDowell
Detective Fiction: The Theory
62 books — 3 voters
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy ParkerThe Best of Robert Benchley by Robert BenchleyHarpo Speaks! by Harpo MarxHow to Be a Hermit, or a Bachelor Keeps House by Will CuppyWhile Rome Burns by Alexander Woollcott
Algonquin Round Table
24 books — 2 voters

Shamanism by Manvir SinghA Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century by Heather E. HeyingRace Marxism by James LindsayCynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
Decoding the Gurus Podcast
80 books — 2 voters
A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length by Roger EbertI Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie by Roger EbertA Massive Swelling by Cintra WilsonShit, Actually by Lindy WestAyoade on Top by Richard Ayoade
Funniest Criticism
8 books — 2 voters

"Bir Gül Bu Karanlıklarda" by Abdullah UçmanZaman ve Hafızanın Kıyısında by Şerif EskinTanpınar'ın Şiir Dünyası by Mehmet KaplanYavaş Yavaş Aydınlanan Tanpınar by Mehmet KaplanKayıp Zamanın İzinde Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar by Mehmet Aydın
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
32 books — 1 voter
Unmask Alice by Rick EmersonThe Bible by Karen ArmstrongThe Ministry of Truth by Dorian LynskeyGirl Sleuth by Melanie Rehak
Book Biographies
4 books — 1 voter

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