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The Dark Forest

#2 of 4 in Remembrance of Earth's Past

The Dark Forest

ByCixin Liu,Joel Martinsen(Translator)

2008 • 862 Readers • 400 pages • 4.2

American Wolf

ByNate Blakeslee

2017 • 22 Readers • 276 pages • 4.6

Whalefall

ByDaniel Kraus

2023 • 139 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9

The Emerald Mile

The Emerald Mile

ByKevin Fedarko

2013 • 16 Readers • 432 pages • 5

Ghost in the Wires

Ghost in the Wires

ByKevin D. Mitnick

2011 • 152 Readers • 433 pages • 3.9

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

ByKazuo Ishiguro

1989 • 663 Readers • 258 pages • 4.2

Norwegian Wood

ByHaruki Murakami,Jay Rubin

1987 • 1,129 Readers • 389 pages • 3.9

The Handmaid's Tale

#1 of 2 in The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

ByMargaret Atwood

1985 • 2,227 Readers • 324 pages • 4.1

The Anthropocene Reviewed

The Anthropocene Reviewed

ByJohn Green

2021 • 501 Readers • 305 pages • 4.4

The Nightingale

The Nightingale

ByKristin Hannah

2015 • 775 Readers • 448 pages • 4.3

Meditations

ByMarcus Aurelius,Martin Hammond(Translator)

-180 • 821 Readers • 254 pages • 4.2

The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII

The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII

ByBob Drury,Tom Clavin

Mistborn: The Final Empire

#1 of 7 in The Mistborn Saga

Mistborn: The Final Empire

ByBrandon Sanderson

2006 • 2,776 Readers • 541 pages • 4.4

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

ByChris Miller

2022 • 144 Readers • 431 pages • 4.2

American Gods

#1 of 2 in American Gods

ByNeil Gaiman

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

ByDaniel Immerwahr

2019 • 152 Readers • 513 pages • 4.4

The Three-Body Problem

#1 of 4 in Remembrance of Earth's Past

The Three-Body Problem

ByCixin Liu,Ken Liu(Translator)

Fairy Tale

ByStephen King

2022 • 774 Readers • 608 pages • 4

King Leopold's Ghost

King Leopold's Ghost

ByAdam Hochschild

1998 • 145 Readers • 400 pages • 4.5

Dune Messiah

#2 of 8 in Dune

ByFrank Herbert

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

ByJulian Sancton

The Dispossessed

#6 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

The Dispossessed

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1974 • 736 Readers • 400 pages • 4.1

Hyperion

#1 of 4 in Hyperion Cantos

ByDan Simmons

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

ByNeil Postman

1985 • 211 Readers • 208 pages • 4.1

The Fishermen and the Dragon

The Fishermen and the Dragon

ByKirk Wallace Johnson

2022 • 3 Readers • 385 pages • 3

Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld

Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld

ByT.J. English

2022 • 12 Readers • 448 pages

The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man

The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man

ByBenjamin Cunningham

2022 • 2 Readers • 320 pages • 3

Blindness

#1 of 2 in Blindness

ByJosé Saramago,Giovanni Pontiero(Translator)

1995 • 509 Readers • 349 pages • 4

Dune

#1 of 8 in Dune

ByFrank Herbert

Human Action

ByLudwig von Mises

1940 • 30 Readers • 690 pages • 4.3

The Sovereign Individual

The Sovereign Individual

ByJames Dale Davidson,Lord William Rees-Mogg

1999 • 50 Readers • 448 pages • 2

Manufacturing Consent

Manufacturing Consent

ByEdward S. Herman,Noam Chomsky

2002 • 178 Readers • 482 pages • 3.9

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

#1 of 2 in Phaedrus

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

ByRobert M. Pirsig

1974 • 440 Readers • 417 pages • 3.8

Merchants of Doubt

Merchants of Doubt

ByNaomi Oreskes,Erik M. Conway

2010 • 79 Readers • 362 pages • 3.9

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

ByAmanda Montell

Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary

ByAndy Weir

Slaughterhouse 5

Critical Insights

Slaughterhouse 5

ByKurt Vonnegut

1968 • 1,898 Readers • 292 pages • 4.1

Another Now

ByYanis Varoufakis

2021 • 19 Readers • 241 pages • 4

World War Z

World War Z

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

ByMax Brooks

Ready Player One

#1 of 2 in Ready Player One

Ready Player One

ByErnest Cline

Rhythm of War

#4 of 10 in The Stormlight Archive

ByBrandon Sanderson

The Midnight Library

The Midnight Library

ByMatt Haig

Dawnshard

#3.5 of 10 in The Stormlight Archive

ByBrandon Sanderson

Oathbringer

#3 of 10 in The Stormlight Archive

ByBrandon Sanderson

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

ByYuval Noah Harari

2011 • 1,662 Readers • 443 pages • 4.2

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

ByElizabeth Kolbert

2014 • 266 Readers • 336 pages • 4

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

ByMatthew B. Crawford

2009 • 62 Readers • 3.3

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

BySteven Pinker

2018 • 154 Readers • 576 pages • 4

Life after Google

Life after Google

ByGeorge F. Gilder

7 Readers • 3

Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change

Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change

ByNoam Chomsky,C.J. Polychroniou

2017 • 8 Readers • 210 pages • 3

The hero with a thousand faces

The hero with a thousand faces

ByJoseph Campbell

1949 • 220 Readers • 337 pages • 4

The Death of the Liberal Class

The Death of the Liberal Class

ByChris Hedges

2010 • 7 Readers • 248 pages

Sh*tshow!

ByCharlie LeDuff

2018 • 2 Readers • 288 pages

The Fourth Turning

The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us about America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

ByWilliam Strauss,Neil Howe

1996 • 24 Readers • 404 pages • 3.4

Empire of Illusion

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

ByChris Hedges

2009 • 16 Readers • 176 pages • 3.3

Edgedancer

#2.5 of 10 in The Stormlight Archive

ByBrandon Sanderson

Words of Radiance

#2 of 10 in The Stormlight Archive

Words of Radiance

ByBrandon Sanderson

White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism

White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism

ByRobin DiAngelo

The Way of Kings

#1 of 10 in The Stormlight Archive

The Way of Kings

ByBrandon Sanderson

A Gentleman in Moscow

A Gentleman in Moscow

ByAmor Towles

Vengeful

#2 of 3 in Villains

ByV. E. Schwab

Vicious

#1 of 3 in Villains

ByV. E. Schwab

Wolf in White Van

Wolf in White Van

ByJohn Darnielle

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

ByErik Brynjolfsson

A Clash of Kings

#2 of 7 in A Song of Ice and Fire

A Clash of Kings

ByGeorge R.R. Martin

An Unwanted Guest

An Unwanted Guest

ByShari Lapena

The Fifth Risk

ByMichael Lewis

A Game of Thrones

#1 of 7 in A Song of Ice and Fire

A Game of Thrones

ByGeorge R.R. Martin

The Son

ByJo Nesbø,Charlotte Barslund(translator)

The Road

ByCormac McCarthy

The Couple Next Door

The Couple Next Door

ByShari Lapena

The Changeling

ByVictor LaValle

The Martian

#1 of 1 in The Martian

ByAndy Weir

Fahrenheit 451

ByRay Bradbury