Best Cookbooks
Most-published cookbooks from world cuisines and famous chefs.
Sci-Fi Books
20 essential sci-fi novels — which book imagined the future best?
Authors
20 of the world's most celebrated authors — who writes best?
Best French Literature
Hugo, Flaubert, Camus, Proust - which French masterpiece towers highest over the canon?
Best Psychology Books
Most-published psychology books exploring the human mind and behavior.
Best Fiction Books
Most-published fiction books of all time, ranked by number of editions worldwide.
Pulitzer Fiction Winners
From Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead - which Pulitzer Prize winning novel is America's greatest?
Best Mystery Books
Most-published mystery and detective fiction, from Agatha Christie to modern thrillers.
Best Russian Literature
Tolstoy vs Dostoevsky vs Chekhov vs Gogol - who is Russia's greatest novelist of all time?
Self-Help Books
20 self-help classics — which book actually changed your life?
Best Biographies
Most-published biographies and autobiographies of remarkable people.
Best Self-Help Books
Most-published self-help and personal development books.
Best Espionage Novels
Le Carre's moles, Fleming's martinis, Ludlum's amnesiacs - which spy novel is the greatest of all time?
Best Physics Books for General Readers
Hawking, Feynman, Greene, Rovelli - which popular physics book makes the cosmos click?
Best Translated Fiction of the Decade
Knausgaard, Ferrante, Tokarczuk or Han Kang - whose translated voice defined literary fiction this decade?
Best Alternate History Novels
The Man in the High Castle, 11/22/63, Fatherland or The Years of Rice and Salt - which what-if novel rewrites history best?
Best Sci-Fi Books
Most-published science fiction books, spanning space opera to cyberpunk.
Best Unreliable Narrator Novels
Gone Girl's psychopath diary, Lolita's eloquent monster, Fight Club's split mind - which unreliable narrator fools you best?
Best Essay Collections
Sontag, Didion, Baldwin, Wallace - whose mind is sharpest when turned loose on the page?
Best Romance Books
Most-published romance novels across all sub-genres.
Best Prison Literature
From Solzhenitsyn's Gulag to Mandela's long walk - which book written behind bars or about life inside resonates most?
Best Indigenous Fiction
Erdrich, Orange, Wagamese or Silko - whose Indigenous novel best captures First Nations experience?
Best Horror Books
Most-published horror fiction, from gothic classics to modern terror.
Best Food Memoirs
Kitchen Confidential, Tender at the Bone, Heat or Blood Bones and Butter - whose kitchen memoir best serves up a life?