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Lanny by Max PorterMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan BraithwaiteThe Testaments by Margaret Atwood10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif ShafakFrankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Booker Prize 2019 Longlist
13 books — 43 voters
The Overstory by Richard PowersThe Mars Room by Rachel KushnerWashington Black by Esi EdugyanWarlight by Michael OndaatjeNormal People by Sally Rooney
Man Booker Prize 2018 Long List
13 books — 6 voters

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders4 3 2 1 by Paul AusterExit West by Mohsin HamidAutumn by Ali SmithHome Fire by Kamila Shamsie
2017 Man Booker Prize "Longlist"
13 books — 11 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,830 books — 3,587 voters

The Diviners by Margaret LaurenceThe Stone Diaries by Carol ShieldsThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThree Day Road by Joseph BoydenIn the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
100 Canadian Books to Read in a Lifetime
124 books — 66 voters
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy DebordThe Seminar of Jacques Lacan by Jacques LacanMythologies by Roland BarthesThe Sublime Object of Ideology (Phronesis by Slavoj ŽižekThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
r/CriticalTheory Recommended Reading
84 books — 20 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Collection of Essays by George OrwellThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusArguably by Christopher Hitchens
Best/Favorite Books of Essays
552 books — 247 voters
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae BurnetThe North Water by Ian McGuireThe Sellout by Paul BeattyHot Milk by Deborah LevyDo Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Man Booker 2016 Longlist
13 books — 97 voters

The Art Museum by Phaidon PressArt and Fear by David BaylesConcerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily KandinskyPoint and Line to Plane by Wassily KandinskyVisual Thinking by Rudolf Arnheim
Blouin ArtInfo's "40 Books Every Artist Should Own"
44 books — 4 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
920 books — 2,382 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Philosophical Literature
1,145 books — 2,747 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,738 voters


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