Community Top 100

The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)

Patrick Rothfuss · The Kingkiller Chronicle · 2011

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro · Urban renewal · 1974

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing · British · 1959

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

David Deutsch · Oneindigheid · 2011

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Charles T. Munger · Investments · 2005

The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

Dan Simmons · Littérature américaine · 1990

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

Liu Cixin · 2006

Letters from a Stoic

Seneca · Early works to 1800 · 64

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard P. Feynman · Anecdotes · 1985

Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Dr. Seuss · Stories in rhyme · 1990

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)

Mark Twain · adventure and adventurers · 1885

Armageddon in Retrospect

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · Social life and customs · 2008

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Carl Safina · Marine ecology · 2011

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

Patrick Rothfuss · orphans · 2007

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Ben Horowitz · Entrepreneurship · 2014

Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

Orson Scott Card · New York Times bestseller · 1985

"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard P. Feynman · Anecdotes · 1988

Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)

Pierce Brown · Fantasy · 2014

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway · Fiction, Historical · 1926

Napoleon: A Life

Andrew Roberts · Emperors · 2014

Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak · Caldecott Medal · 1963

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser · English language · 1976

Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer

Stewart Brand · Time · 1999

The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

Michio Kaku · Brain · 2014

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · Modern fiction · 1925

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson · Survival · 2015

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir · hard science-fiction · 2021

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari · 2011

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway · Cuentos de guerra · 1929

Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

Alan Alda · Actors · 2007

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · American science fiction · 1969

Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)

Pierce Brown · Resistance to Government · 2015

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

J.K. Rowling · Ghosts · 1997

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Adventures of Tom and Huck #1)

Mark Twain · The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · 1876

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)

J.K. Rowling · orphans · 2000

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs · City planning · 1961

Moneyball

Michael Lewis · Baseball players · 2003

The Lessons of History

Will Durant · Philosophy · 1968

Musashi

Eiji Yoshikawa · Swordsmen · 1935

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer · Adventure and adventurers · 1996

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)

J.K. Rowling · 2005

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Todd Gilbert · Happiness · 2006

Reimagining Greenville: Building the Best Downtown in America

John Boyanoski · North carolina, social life and customs · 2013

Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

Pierce Brown · Fantasy · 2014

Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)

Pierce Brown · Resistance to Government · 2016

Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)

Pierce Brown · American literature · 2023

1984

George Orwell · Totalitarianism · 1948

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

J.R.R. Tolkien · 1937

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

William Cronon · 1983

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Philip E. Tetlock · Economic forecasting · 2015

Denmark Vesey: The Buried History of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It

David M. Robertson · Biography · 1999

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

Ernesto Che Guevara · Friends and associates · 1992

The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)

James Islington · 2025

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Will Durant · Philosophers · 1926

The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4)

Dan Simmons · Science fiction · 1997

Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

Dan Simmons · Science fiction · 1996

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Dan Simmons · 1989

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

Chris Miller · New York Times bestseller · 2022

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius · Philosophy · 180

Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

Liu Cixin · Fiction · 2010

The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)

James Islington · 2023

The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence

Josh Waitzkin · Tai chi · 2007

History's Heroes: Isaac Newton

Michael Facchinello · 2025

The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)

Liu Cixin · 2008

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight · Businesspeople, juvenile literature · 2016

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

Eric Jorgenson · 2020

Thinking In Systems: A Primer

Donella H. Meadows · critical thinking · 2008

The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

Javier Blas · Commerce · 2021

Sam Walton, Made in America: My Story

Sam Walton · Wal-Mart stores · 1992

Animal Farm

George Orwell · British and Irish fiction (fictional works by one author) · 1945

The Law

Frédéric Bastiat · Administration of Justice · 1849

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear · 2018

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S. Clason · Business ethics · 1926

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Robert Iger · 2019

High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove · Industrial management · 1983

The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

Andrew Chen · 2021

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

Douglas Adams · 1979

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Annie Duke · Management games · 2018

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1974

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

Christopher Ryan · 2010

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

Daniel Yergin · Causes · 1991

Harvard Business Review on Leadership

John P. Kotter · Leadership · 1998

Candide

Voltaire · Conduct of life · 1759

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1605

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2

John Tiffany · Drama · 2016

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt · Economics · 2005

The Industries of the Future

Alec J. Ross · Industries · 2016

Playing for Pizza

John Grisham · Social life and customs · 2007

The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

Ichiro Kishimi · 2013

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte · Diagramm · 1983

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

Rick Riordan · 2008

Principles: Life and Work

Ray Dalio · Investment advisors · 2017

The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)

Rick Riordan · 2007

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman · 2011

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Shunryu Suzuki · Doctrines · 1970

If You're in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!: Strategies for Long-Term Growth (Columbia Business School Publishing)

Leonard Sherman · Industrial management · 2017

The Design of Everyday Things

Donald A. Norman · Ergonomie · 1988

This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See

Seth Godin · 2018

Make Today Matter: 10 Habits for a Better Life (and World)

Chris Lowney · Christian life · 2018

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell · Psychology · 2008