| The Shadow Over Innsmouth |
H.P. Lovecraft |
1936 |
Horror |
| Musashi |
Eiji Yoshikawa |
1935 |
Historical Fiction |
| The Prince |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
1532 |
Political Philosophy |
| The Dancing Girl |
Mori Ogai |
1890 |
Literary Fiction |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
Milan Kundera |
1984 |
Philosophical Fiction |
| A Farewell to Arms |
Ernest Hemingway |
1929 |
War Novel |
| Pinocchio |
Carlo Collodi |
1883 |
Children's Fantasy |
| The Inugami Curse |
Seishi Yokomizo |
1951 |
Mystery |
| Hopscotch |
Julio Cortazar |
1963 |
Experimental Fiction |
| The Will to Keep Winning |
Daigo Umehara |
2017 |
Autobiography |
| Billion Dollar Whale |
Tom Wright & Bradley Hope |
2018 |
Investigative Journalism |
| Poem Collection |
Edgar Allan Poe |
1845 |
Poetry |
| Gone with the Wind |
Margaret Mitchell |
1936 |
Historical Fiction |
| The Wheel of Time |
Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson |
1990 |
Epic Fantasy |
| The Divine Comedy |
Dante Alighieri |
1320 |
Epic Poetry |
| The Selfish Gene |
Richard Dawkins |
1976 |
Science |
| The War of Art |
Steven Pressfield |
2002 |
Self-Help |
| Blood Meridian |
Cormac McCarthy |
1985 |
Western |
| The Power of Habit |
Charles Duhigg |
2012 |
Self-Help |
| I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream |
Harlan Ellison |
1967 |
Science Fiction |
| Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
1932 |
Dystopian Fiction |
| The Way of Kings |
Brandon Sanderson |
2010 |
Epic Fantasy |
| The Neverending Story |
Michael Ende |
1979 |
Fantasy |
| A Christmas Carol |
Charles Dickens |
1843 |
Novella |
| Bendigo Shafter |
Louis L'Amour |
1979 |
Western |
| Specters of Marx |
Jacques Derrida |
1993 |
Philosophy |
| Red Rising |
Pierce Brown |
2014 |
Science Fiction |
| Pity the Reader |
Kurt Vonnegut |
2019 |
Writing / Nonfiction |
| The Center Cannot Hold |
Elyn Saks |
2007 |
Memoir |
| 2666 |
Roberto Bolano |
2004 |
Literary Fiction |
| The Hero with a Thousand Faces |
Joseph Campbell |
1949 |
Mythology |
| Anna Karenina |
Leo Tolstoy |
1878 |
Literary Fiction |
| Walden |
Henry David Thoreau |
1854 |
Philosophy |
| Dune |
Frank Herbert |
1965 |
Science Fiction |
| Norwegian Wood |
Haruki Murakami |
1987 |
Literary Fiction |
| I Am a Cat |
Natsume Soseki |
1905 |
Satirical Novel |
| Naomi |
Junichiro Tanizaki |
1924 |
Literary Fiction |
| Snow Country |
Yasunari Kawabata |
1947 |
Literary Fiction |
| A Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea |
Yukio Mishima |
1963 |
Psychological Fiction |
| The Woman in the Dunes |
Kobo Abe |
1962 |
Existential Fiction |
| A Personal Matter |
Kenzaburo Oe |
1964 |
Literary Fiction |
| Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World |
Haruki Murakami |
1985 |
Science Fantasy |
| Man's Search for Meaning |
Viktor Frankl |
1946 |
Psychology / Memoir |
| Kitchen Confidential |
Anthony Bourdain |
2000 |
Memoir / Culinary |
| Manga in Theory and Practice |
Hirohiko Araki |
2015 |
Art / Instruction |
| No One Is Talking About This |
Patricia Lockwood |
2021 |
Literary Fiction |
| The Myth of Sisyphus |
Albert Camus |
1942 |
Philosophy |
| Nail |
Laura Hird |
2001 |
Literary Fiction |
| Everything Is Tuberculosis |
John Green |
2025 |
Nonfiction / Health |
| Madness and Civilization |
Michel Foucault |
1961 |
Philosophy / History |
| Shoe Dog |
Phil Knight |
2016 |
Business Memoir |
| Ready Player One |
Ernest Cline |
2011 |
Science Fiction |
| Amusing Ourselves to Death |
Neil Postman |
1985 |
Media Criticism |
| Siddhartha |
Hermann Hesse |
1922 |
Philosophical Fiction |
| East of Eden |
John Steinbeck |
1952 |
Literary Fiction |
| Bleeding Edge |
Thomas Pynchon |
2013 |
Postmodern Fiction |
| White Noise |
Don DeLillo |
1985 |
Literary Fiction |
| Snow Crash |
Neal Stephenson |
1992 |
Cyberpunk |
| Major Arcana |
John Pistelli |
2023 |
Literary Fiction |
| Against the Machine |
Paul Kingsnorth |
2010 |
Essays |
| Pattern Recognition |
William Gibson |
2003 |
Science Fiction |
| Mourning Diary |
Roland Barthes |
2010 |
Memoir |
| Spring Snow |
Yukio Mishima |
1969 |
Literary Fiction |
| Runaway Horses |
Yukio Mishima |
1969 |
Literary Fiction |
| Sun and Steel |
Yukio Mishima |
1968 |
Autobiography |
| Gravity and Grace |
Simone Weil |
1947 |
Philosophy |
| Either/Or |
Soren Kierkegaard |
1843 |
Philosophy |
| All About Love |
bell hooks |
2000 |
Philosophy |
| Infinite Jest |
David Foster Wallace |
1996 |
Postmodern Fiction |
| Flatline Constructs |
Mark Fisher |
2018 |
Philosophy / Cultural Criticism |
| Man and His Symbols |
Carl Jung |
1964 |
Psychology |
| Meditations |
Marcus Aurelius |
180 |
Stoic Philosophy |
| The Problem of Pain |
C. S. Lewis |
1940 |
Theology |
| Making Sense of Suffering |
Peter Kreeft |
1986 |
Philosophy |
| Inglorious Empire |
Shashi Tharoor |
2016 |
History |
| Around the World in Seventy-Two Days |
Nellie Bly |
1890 |
Travel |
| Moby-Dick |
Herman Melville |
1851 |
Adventure |
| To Build a Fire |
Jack London |
1908 |
Short Story |
| Ready Player One |
Ernest Cline |
2011 |
Science Fiction |
| The Denial of Death |
Ernest Becker |
1973 |
Psychology |
| Rage |
Richard Bachman (Stephen King) |
1977 |
Psychological Fiction |
| Dilla Time |
Dan Charnas |
2022 |
Music Biography |
| The Courage to Be Disliked |
Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga |
2013 |
Psychology |
| The Journey Into Yourself |
Eckhart Tolle |
2005 |
Spirituality |
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
Harper Lee |
1960 |
Literary Fiction |
| Can't Hurt Me |
David Goggins |
2018 |
Memoir / Self-Help |
| Deep Work |
Cal Newport |
2016 |
Productivity |
| The Millionaire Fastlane |
M. J. DeMarco |
2011 |
Business |
| $100M Offers |
Alex Hormozi |
2021 |
Business |
| Rip Van Winkle |
Washington Irving |
1819 |
Short Story |
| Breathe |
James Nestor |
2020 |
Health |
| The Creative Act: A Way of Being |
Rick Rubin |
2023 |
Creativity |
| The Power of Now |
Eckhart Tolle |
1997 |
Spirituality |
| The Almanack of Naval Ravikant |
Eric Jorgenson |
2020 |
Philosophy / Business |
| The 120 Days of Sodom |
Marquis de Sade |
1904 |
Philosophical Fiction |
| The Deadline Effect |
Christopher Cox |
2021 |
Productivity |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People |
Dale Carnegie |
1936 |
Self-Help |
| Outliers |
Malcolm Gladwell |
2008 |
Psychology |
| Think and Grow Rich |
Napoleon Hill |
1937 |
Self-Help |
| The Magic of Thinking Big |
David J. Schwartz |
1959 |
Self-Help |
| The 48 Laws of Power |
Robert Greene |
1998 |
Strategy |
| The Art of Seduction |
Robert Greene |
2001 |
Strategy |
| The Science of Storytelling |
Will Storr |
2019 |
Psychology |
| Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change |
Joseph Grenny |
2007 |
Leadership |
| The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck |
Mark Manson |
2016 |
Self-Help |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
Stephen Covey |
1989 |
Self-Help |
| Courage Is Calling |
Ryan Holiday |
2021 |
Stoic Philosophy |
| Stillness Is the Key |
Ryan Holiday |
2019 |
Stoic Philosophy |
| Ego Is the Enemy |
Ryan Holiday |
2016 |
Stoic Philosophy |
| The Obstacle Is the Way |
Ryan Holiday |
2014 |
Stoic Philosophy |
| The Millionaire Fastlane |
M. J. DeMarco |
2011 |
Business |
| The Psychology of Selling |
Brian Tracy |
1985 |
Business |
| The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn |
Richard W. Hamming |
1997 |
Science / Education |
| Nicomachean Ethics |
Aristotle |
-350 |
Philosophy |
| The Anatomy of Melancholy |
Robert Burton |
1621 |
Philosophy |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms |
Luo Guanzhong |
1522 |
Historical Fiction |
| The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years |
Chingiz Aitmatov |
1980 |
Science Fiction |
| Atlas Shrugged |
Ayn Rand |
1957 |
Philosophical Fiction |
| Intensity |
Dean Koontz |
1995 |
Thriller |
| A Time to Kill |
John Grisham |
1989 |
Legal Thriller |
| Lord of the Flies |
William Golding |
1954 |
Allegorical Fiction |
| Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media |
Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky |
1988 |
Media Criticism |
| Confessions |
Saint Augustine |
397 |
Autobiography / Theology |
| The Outsiders |
S. E. Hinton |
1967 |
Young Adult Fiction |
| The Memory Police |
Yōko Ogawa |
1994 |
Dystopian Fiction |
| A Tale for the Time Being |
Ruth Ozeki |
2013 |
Literary Fiction |
| The Waiting Years |
Fumiko Enchi |
1957 |
Literary Fiction |
| Strange Weather in Tokyo |
Hiromi Kawakami |
2001 |
Romance / Literary Fiction |