Top Retellings of Classic Tales

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The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,222 books — 8,062 voters
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy MontgomeryWrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl WigginsThe Pendulum has Swung too far by Karl WigginsA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonAnxiety by Danny Winter
Fresh Viewpoints nonfiction only
21 books — 14 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 171 voters
Macbeth by William ShakespeareHistory of the Peloponnesian War by ThucydidesLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanRichard III by William ShakespeareThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Richard Gilmore Reading List
18 books — 6 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List
396 books — 649 voters
My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby FischerBobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby FischerLogical Chess by Irving ChernevThe Life and Games of Mikhail Tal by Mikhail TalHow to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman
Best Chess Books
297 books — 117 voters

The Rest Is Noise by Alex RossThe Classical Style by Charles RosenThe Romantic Generation by Charles RosenWhat to Listen for in Music by Aaron CoplandJohannes Brahms by Jan Swafford
Classical Music: Nonfiction
300 books — 72 voters