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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Mirror & the Light by Hilary MantelThrough Darkest Zymurgia! by William H. DuquetteNew Dark Age by James BridleAir & Light & Time & Space by Helen Sword
Books Of Darkness And Light
413 books — 32 voters
The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr by Reduced Shakespeare CompanyPlay by Play by Neal ConanHow To Play the Harmonica by Sam BarryCharlie Parker Played Be Bop by Chris RaschkaMen at Work by George F. Will
Work and Play
202 books — 10 voters

Slowly, Slowly, Horses by Julianne BuchsbaumQuicksilver by Neal StephensonThe First Fast Draw by Louis L'AmourNot Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook by Beth HenspergerThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Books with Speeds in the Title
231 books — 24 voters
The P. Craig Russell Library of Opera Adaptations by P. Craig RussellLibrary Mascot Cage Match by Gene AmbaumAnalyzing Library Collection Use with Excel® by Tony GreinerLibrary Blogging by Karen A. CoombsWeeding Library Collections by Stanley J. Slote
Books with Library in the Title
513 books — 45 voters

Understanding Knowledge As a Commons by Charlotte HessMy Prairie Cookbook by Melissa GilbertThe Extra 2% by Jonah KeriThe Politics Presidents Make by Stephen SkowronekAmerican Cake by Anne Byrn
From Tings to Dings
247 books — 11 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. MilneThe Dog Is Not a Toy by Darby ConleyThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Houses
677 books — 50 voters

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryBecause the Stars Shine Through It by Geoff MunstermanIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonThe Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book by Bill WattersonStardust by Neil Gaiman
Moon, Sun and Stars
677 books — 49 voters
Other Worlds Other Seas by Darko SuvinThe Riverside Shakespeare by William ShakespeareChesapeake Bay Cooking by John ShieldsHarry by the Sea by Gene ZionThe Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Books with Bodies of Water in the Titles
918 books — 72 voters

The Night Bookmobile by Audrey NiffeneggerSting-Ray Afternoons by Steve RushinWe Make the Road by Walking by Myles HortonPsychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester BangsBaseball as a Road to God by John Sexton
•Sure To Steer You Wrong
222 books — 16 voters
Life on Mars by Tracy K. SmithDo You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? by David RutledgeHis Eye is on the Sparrow by Ethel WatersImitation of Life by Allison JosephCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Books with a Song Name as the Title
753 books — 84 voters

The Black Box Society by Frank PasqualeThe Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
Bladder "Control" Freak
224 books — 7 voters
Breaker Boys by Jan KubickiThe Good Soldier by Ford Madox FordA Soldier of the Great War by Mark HelprinThe Tenants of Time by Thomas FlanaganThe High King by Lloyd Alexander
Jobs, Career, Vocation
667 books — 56 voters

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtQuicksilver by Neal StephensonBy the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls WilderCloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi BarrettThe Tower and the Cloud by Richard N. Katz
Shades of Grey
476 books — 34 voters
Chéri and The Last of Chéri by ColetteThe End of the Affair by Graham GreeneThe Last Human Heart by Allison JosephPlay by Play by Neal ConanBandwidth Recovery by Cia Verschelden
’end’ or ‘last’ or ‘lost’ or 'final' in the title...
733 books — 20 voters

Some of the Best from Tor.com by Ellen DatlowPwning Tomorrow by Dave Maass
Free Samples
102 books — 19 voters
Franklin Barbecue by Aaron FranklinBlack Smoke by Adrian MillerSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtySmokelore by Jim Auchmutey
•Johnny Smoke
84 books — 4 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonArchy and Mehitabel by Don MarquisA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonIn a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Add 1 book for every 100 you read
90 books — 14 voters
First, Break All the Rules by Marcus BuckinghamThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliSiddhartha by Hermann HesseCosmos by Carl SaganManaging in the Next Society by Peter F. Drucker
100 Books You Must Read to Improve Yourself
115 books — 63 voters

Till We Have Faces by C.S. LewisThe Power of Neurodiversity by Thomas ArmstrongNeuroTribes by Steve SilbermanMusicophilia by Oliver SacksMismatch by Kat Holmes
Neurodiversity and Disability in Society - 50 Introductory Books
58 books — 16 voters
The Shock of the Old by David EdgertonThis Is Not an Atlas by Kollektiv Orangotango+Drawdown by Paul HawkenBrick by Brick by David C. RobertsonPerfect Practice by Peter Coraggio
∫now "Glob"∫
138 books — 4 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonWe Make the Road by Walking by Myles HortonTake Time for Paradise by A. Bartlett GiamattiCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonLove Is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
Titlemania III: Whole-Sentence Titles
1,448 books — 150 voters
Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess RobertsToo Long a Sacrifice by Mildred Downey BroxonAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverOur Iceberg Is Melting by John P. KotterWherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Title is Better Than the Book
184 books — 69 voters

I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like by Todd SniderNeverwhere by Neil GaimanLet's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny LawsonNever Cry Wolf by Farley MowatYou're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day
"Never" Needs Winding
330 books — 15 voters
Breaker Boys by Jan KubickiAfter Every War by Eavan BolandA Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. GainesAnansi Boys by Neil GaimanDignifying Science by Jim Ottaviani
The Girl & The Boy, The woman & The man
649 books — 28 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonMarch by John LewisThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XWhy Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel TatumJust Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Popsugar 2021 #20 - A Book on a Black Lives Matter Reading List
143 books — 198 voters
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs by Dave BarryIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonThe Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr by Reduced Shakespeare CompanyMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisNotes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Best Humorous Non-Fiction
579 books — 238 voters

Anatomy of Animals by Dave KellettAnatomy of Authors by Dave KellettAnatomy of a Museum by A. Kendra Greene
An(Atom)ical Bomb
279 books — 8 voters
Homicide by David SimonThe Hearse You Came in On by Tim CockeyThe Longest Season by Cal Ripken Jr.Chesapeake Bay Cooking by John ShieldsBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Baltimore
202 books — 45 voters

First, Break All the Rules by Gallup PressLeadership Is an Art by Max DePreeThe Culture Code by Daniel CoyleThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick LencioniIt Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried
Rands Leadership Books Reading List
105 books — 77 voters
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? by David RutledgeDave Barry's Book of Bad Songs by Dave BarryYukon Ho! by Bill WattersonAll Those Mornings . . . At the Post by Shirley PovichCallahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson
Punctuation in the title
726 books — 26 voters