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Poetry Collections 67

The Temple
George Herbert · 1633
Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798
Poems
Emily Dickinson · 1890
Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore · 1910
Alcools
Guillaume Apollinaire · 1913
Harmonium
Wallace Stevens · 1923
Spring and All
William Carlos Williams · 1923
Chants d'ombre
Léopold Sédar Senghor · 1945
North & South
Elizabeth Bishop · 1946
Annie Allen
Gwendolyn Brooks · 1949
Requiem
Anna Akhmatova · 1963
Crow
Ted Hughes · 1970
Labyrinths
Christopher Okigbo · 1971
North
Seamus Heaney · 1975
Coal
Audre Lorde · 1976
Omeros
Derek Walcott · 1990
Crush
Richard Siken · 2005
Native Guard
Natasha Trethewey · 2006

Fantasy 51

The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1937
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler · 1979
Magician
Raymond E. Feist · 1982
The Mists of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley · 1983
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman · 1984
Legend
David Gemmell · 1984
Good Omens
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett · 1990
Eragon
Christopher Paolini · 2003
Circe
Madeline Miller · 2018

Classic Literature (pre-1900 novels) 50

Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes · 1605
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding · 1749
Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos · 1782
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1847
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1852
Bleak House
Charles Dickens · 1853
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1857
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1868

Drama & Plays 50

Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe · 1592
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare · 1597
Hamlet
William Shakespeare · 1600
Othello
William Shakespeare · 1603
King Lear
William Shakespeare · 1606
Macbeth
William Shakespeare · 1606
The Tempest
William Shakespeare · 1610
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808
Miss Julie
August Strindberg · 1888
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw · 1913
No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre · 1944
Fences
August Wilson · 1985

Economics & Business 50

The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith · 1958
In Search of Excellence
Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. · 1982
The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt · 1984
Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough and John Helyar · 1990
Reengineering the Corporation
Michael Hammer and James Champy · 1993
Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2001
Nudge
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein · 2008
Poor Economics
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo · 2011
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson · 2012

Philosophy & Ethics 50

Confessions
Augustine of Hippo · 400
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli · 1532
Pensées
Blaise Pascal · 1670
Ethics
Baruch Spinoza · 1677
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels · 1848
Walden
Henry David Thoreau · 1854
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill · 1859
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir · 1949
After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre · 1981

History & Historiography 49

Chronicles
Jean Froissart · 1400
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835
The History of England
Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1848
The Great Crash 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith · 1955
The Reformation
Diarmaid MacCulloch · 2003
1491
Charles C. Mann · 2005

Modern Literary Fiction (1900-1970) 49

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre · 1938
Native Son
Richard Wright · 1940
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata · 1948
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955
The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · 1958
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961
Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar · 1963

Biography & Memoir 48

Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington · 1901
Black Boy
Richard Wright · 1945
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov · 1951
Night
Elie Wiesel · 1956
Maus
Art Spiegelman · 1986
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi · 2000
John Adams
David McCullough · 2001
Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 2005
Fun Home
Alison Bechdel · 2006
Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali · 2006
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson · 2011
I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai · 2013
Becoming
Michelle Obama · 2018
Educated
Tara Westover · 2018

Popular Science & Mathematics 47

Gödel's Proof
Ernest Nagel and James Newman · 1958
Freakonomics
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner · 2005
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2007

Art, Music & Culture 46

Psychology & Neuroscience 46

Studies on Hysteria
Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud · 1895
Neurophilosophy
Patricia Churchland · 1986
An Unquiet Mind
Kay Redfield Jamison · 1995

Religious & Spiritual Texts 46

The Zohar
Moses de León · 1300

Contemporary Literary Fiction (1970-present) 45

Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow · 1975
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson · 1980
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
Blindness
José Saramago · 1995
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace · 1996
Snow
Orhan Pamuk · 2002
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006
The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006

Mystery, Thriller & Crime Fiction 45

The Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett · 1934
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier · 1938
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler · 1939
The Laughing Policeman
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö · 1968
Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith · 1981
Perfume
Patrick Süskind · 1985
Misery
Stephen King · 1987
The Club Dumas
Arturo Pérez-Reverte · 1993

Children's & Young Adult Literature 44

Heidi
Johanna Spyri · 1880
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1943
Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown · 1947
Holes
Louis Sachar · 1998
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson · 1999

Essays, Journalism & Creative Nonfiction 37

Essays
Michel de Montaigne · 1580
The Spectator
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele · 1711
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1973
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston · 1976
The Emperor
Ryszard Kapuściński · 1978
Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Ehrenreich · 2001
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2018

Political Science & Theory 32

The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay · 1788
On War
Carl von Clausewitz · 1832
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe · 1985
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander · 2010

Science Fiction (additional) 31

Solaris
Stanisław Lem · 1961
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany · 1966
Roadside Picnic
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky · 1972
Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany · 1975
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson · 1992
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson · 1992
Metro 2033
Dmitry Glukhovsky · 2005

Romance & Gothic Fiction 28

The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774
The Monk
Matthew Lewis · 1796
Emma
Jane Austen · 1815
Uncle Silas
Sheridan Le Fanu · 1864
Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu · 1872
Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 1928
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon · 1991

Epic Poetry 7

Poetry 6

African Literature 4

Novel 3

Dystopian Fiction 2

Novella 2

Science Fiction 2

Dune
Frank Herbert · 1965

Adventure Novel 1

Beat Literature 1

Drama 1

Essay 1

Fiction 1

The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio · 1353

Historical Novel 1

History 1

Literary Fiction 1

Medieval Literature 1

Middle Eastern Literature 1

Persian Epic 1

Philosophical Fiction 1

Philosophical Poetry 1

Philosophy 1

Poetry Collection 1

Political Philosophy 1

Political Satire 1

Short Story Collection 1

Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges · 1944

Social Novel 1