5000 BEST BOOKS

Year from to
 
RankScoreTitle (Year)LinksWriter
2001.6.9The Dark Half (1989)GR  AM  KBStephen King
2002.6.9The 4-Hour Workweek (2007)GR  AM  KBTim Ferriss
2003.6.9The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)GR  AM  KBJ.R.R. Tolkien
2004.6.9IncarceronGR  AM  KBCatherine Fisher
2005.6.9Rime of the Ancient MarinerGR  AM  KBSamuel Taylor Coleridge
2006.6.9AnnalsGR  AM  KBTacitus
2007.6.9Saint JoanGR  AM  KBGeorge Bernard Shaw
2008.6.9InhumansGR  AM  KB
2009.6.9Double Star (1956)GR  AM  KBRobert A. Heinlein
2010.6.9Nation (2008)GR  AM  KBTerry Pratchett
2011.6.9Broken City (2004)GR  AM  KB
2012.6.9Let It Snow (2008)GR  AM  KBJohn Green
2013.6.9In Search of ExcellenceGR  AM  KBThomas J. Peters
2014.6.9Changing Places (1975)GR  AM  KBDavid Lodge
2015.6.9Double Indemnity (1943)GR  AM  KBJames M Cain
2016.6.9The Radetzky March (1932)GR  AM  KBJoseph Roth
2017.6.9What to Expect When You're Expecting (1984)GR  AM  KBHeidi Murkoff
2018.6.9What Is Life? (1944)GR  AM  KBErwin Schrodinger
2019.6.9Molecular dynamicsGR  AM  KB
2020.6.8King JohnGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
2021.6.9Life on the Mississippi (1883)GR  AM  KBMark Twain
2022.6.9The Wise Man's Fear (2011)GR  AM  KBPatrick Rothfuss
2023.6.8Innocents Abroad (1869)GR  AM  KBMark Twain
2024.6.8Dianetics (1950)GR  AM  KBL. Ron Hubbard
2025.6.8History of RomeGR  AM  KBLivy
2026.6.8All I Really Need to Know I Learned in KindergartenGR  AM  KBRobert Fulghum
2027.6.9Rocket BoysGR  AM  KBHomer Hickam
2028.6.8Lanark (1981)GR  AM  KBAlastair Gray
2029.6.8The African QueenGR  AM  KBCS Forester
2030.6.8The Bourne LegacyGR  AM  KB
2031.6.9Batman: The Long HalloweenGR  AM  KB
2032.6.9The Running Man (1982)GR  AM  KBStephen King
2033.6.8All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder (2008)GR  AM  KB
2034.6.9The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)GR  AM  KBThomas S. Kuhn
2035.6.8Lost City (2004)GR  AM  KBPaul Kemprecos
2036.6.9The Road to Serfdom (1944)GR  AM  KBFriedrich Hayek
2037.6.8The Grand Design (2010)GR  AM  KBLeonard Mlodinow
2038.6.8The Titan's Curse (2007)GR  AM  KBRick Riordan
2039.6.8Xenocide (1991)GR  AM  KBOrson Scott Card
2040.6.8Forever... (1975)GR  AM  KBJudy Blume
2041.6.8Love Medicine (1984)GR  AM  KBLouise Erdrich
2042.6.8The Terror (2007)GR  AM  KBDan Simmons
2043.6.8Sonnets from the PortugueseGR  AM  KBElizabeth Barrett Browning
2044.6.8The Child in TimeGR  AM  KBIan McEwan
2045.6.8Codex Seraphinianus (1981)GR  AM  KBLuigi Serafini
2046.6.8It Takes a Village (1996)GR  AM  KBHillary Rodham Clinton
2047.6.8The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (2010)GR  AM  KBStephenie Meyer
2048.6.8Spoon River AnthologyGR  AM  KBEdgar Lee Masters
2049.6.8Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009)GR  AM  KBSeth Grahame-Smith
2050.6.8Brisingr (2008)GR  AM  KBChristopher Paolini
2051.6.8Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005)GR  AM  KBJared M. Diamond
2052.6.8The Complete Manual of Suicide (1993)GR  AM  KBWataru Tsurumi
2053.6.8State of Fear (2004)GR  AM  KBMichael Crichton
2054.6.8De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)GR  AM  KBNicolaus Copernicus
2055.6.8One Minute Manager (1982)GR  AM  KBKenneth H. Blanchard
2056.6.8Cover Her Face (1962)GR  AM  KBP.D. James
2057.6.8First Love (1860)GR  AM  KBIvan Turgenev
2058.6.8C CubeGR  AM  KB
2059.6.8The House on Mango Street (1991)GR  AM  KBSandra Cisneros
2060.6.8The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985)GR  AM  KBOliver Sacks
2061.6.8Spider-Man: One More Day (2008)GR  AM  KB
2062.6.8The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)GR  AM  KBMatthew Sands
2063.6.8The Rules (1995)GR  AM  KBEllen Fein
2064.6.8The Rape of Nanking (1997)GR  AM  KBIris Chang
2065.6.8Taras Bulba (1835)GR  AM  KBNikolai Gogol
2066.6.8The Executioner's Song (1979)GR  AM  KBNorman Mailer
2067.6.8A Christmas Memory (1956)GR  AM  KBTruman Capote
2068.6.8Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream (1990)GR  AM  KBH.G. Bissinger
2069.6.8Anne of the Island (1915)GR  AM  KBL.M. Montgomery
2070.6.8MoneyGR  AM  KBMartin Amis
2071.6.8Vurt (1993)GR  AM  KBJeff Noon
2072.6.8IQ and the Wealth of Nations (2002)GR  AM  KBRichard Lynn
2073.6.8The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1997)GR  AM  KBJoaquim Maria Machado de Assis
2074.6.8Voss (1957)GR  AM  KBPatrick White
2075.6.8No Man's Land (1999)GR  AM  KB
2076.6.8ZetmanGR  AM  KB
2077.6.8The Limits to Growth (1972)GR  AM  KBDonella H. Meadows
2078.6.8The Gay Science (1882)GR  AM  KBFriedrich Nietzsche
2079.6.8The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)GR  AM  KBEdgar Allan Poe
2080.6.8Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)GR  AM  KBHunter S. Thompson
2081.6.8Gateway (1977)GR  AM  KBFrederik Pohl
2082.6.8Julie of the Wolves (1972)GR  AM  KBJean Craighead George
2083.6.8Riders of the Purple Sage (1912)GR  AM  KBZane Grey
2084.6.8The Red Pyramid (2010)GR  AM  KBRick Riordan
2085.6.8Cognitive SurplusGR  AM  KBClay Shirky
2086.6.8Justine (1791)GR  AM  KBMarquis de Sade
2087.6.8Space groupGR  AM  KB
2088.6.8Encyclopedie (1751)GR  AM  KBJean le Rond d'Alembert
2089.6.8The History of Sexuality (1976)GR  AM  KBMichel Foucault
2090.6.8Vampire KissesGR  AM  KBEllen Schreiber
2091.6.8Commentaries on the Laws of EnglandGR  AM  KBSir William Blackstone
2092.6.83001: The Final Odyssey (1997)GR  AM  KBArthur C. Clarke
2093.6.8Old Man Logan (2009)GR  AM  KB
2094.6.8Barnaby Rudge (1841)GR  AM  KBCharles Dickens
2095.6.8Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881)GR  AM  KBGustave Flaubert
2096.6.8Venus on the Half-Shell (1975)GR  AM  KBKilgore Trout
2097.6.8SmithsonianGR  AM  KB
2098.6.8Messenger (2004)GR  AM  KBLois Lowry
2099.6.8The Legend of the Condor Heroes (1957)GR  AM  KBJin Yong
2100.6.8Tai-Pan (1966)GR  AM  KBJames Clavell
 
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5000 Best Books, by Arek Paterek (Twitter), 2012.
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