Books

20 Books You Should Read In Your 20s

When you're twenty-something you're doing a lot of changing, a lot of growing and learning, you're setting a foundation for your life and these are the books that will make you think. These are 20 books that will open your mind an...

Childhood Book Favourites

Thought I'd pick something simple to test my first Ranker list on. I was a voracious reader - when we moved house when I was about 13/14, shortly after I ended up with 9 bookcases... but can I remember what any of them were...

Popular Children's Books with Movie Adaptations

A list of children's book to movie adaptations. These are children's books that have been adapted into feature films. Children's literature is in many ways timeless. The books we were read as a child, we now read to our own kids. ...

The greatest horror novels of all time

Famous Humorists

A list of humorists, both old and new. A humorist is a writer who specializes in humorous material. Unlike comedy writers though, who go for all out laughs, humorist writers are more subtle and cerebral. But don't take that to mea...

Famous Books by Anonymous Authors

Anonymous books, a list of books by anonymous authors. While some of these books may have since had their author discovered, they were all originally published anonymously. Most often, this happens because the book deals with cont...

Famous Supernatural Writers

A list of supernatural writers specializing in the occult and other hidden knowledge, including mysticism and the arcane. All genres have been included, although the majority of the writers on this list focus on non-fiction studie...

Famous Books Published under a Pseudonym

A list of books published under a pseudonym. Similar to books published anonymously, books on this list were published under a false name. While many of these books may have since had their true author discovered, they were all or...

Favorite Books I've Read

5 Hardest Books To Read (That Are Totally Worth It)

Staggering page numbers, an infinite amount of strange and fascinating characters buried in almost as many digressions, technical and obscure theoretical findings...that's what these masterpieces are all about. If your idea of a g...

Books with Titles Taken from Literature

A list of books with titles that quote other well-known works of literature. Many of these are phrases we've heard, but probably can't place. This list provides the answers. Coincidentally (or perhaps by design), many of these boo...

Best Selling Books of All Time

A list of the best selling books of all time, fiction and nonfiction best sellers. Since religious and political books, such as The Holy Bible, are often given away for free, they have not been included on this list. These top sel...

Western Fiction Authors

A list of western fiction authors with writers who specialize in all types of western historical fiction and tales of the American frontier. If cowboys, indians (native americans), gold miners, and outlaws are your favorite types ...

Books that made me fall in love with reading all over again

Hopefully this list will grow steadily, but here are just the best books I have read, published in the 90's and later.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

A list of the 1001 books you must read before you die. This list has been used by book lovers for years. Featuring classics and newer books alike, this list is a fantastic resource for bibliophiles (and if you're checking out this...

Famous Irish Authors

A list of famous Irish authors. These are considered as the legendary authors of Irish origin and best Irish writers of all time. This list of famous Irish authors is alphabetical and can be sorted by any column. This list can be ...

The 10 Best Fantasy Novels and Fantasy Series

Why fantasy stories? Why list the best fantasy books if movies are probably being made about all of them? Yeah: a crime/thriller novel might have danger and chases, a fiction story might tell of human struggle and a biography migh...

20 Greatest Coffee Table Books of All Time

The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time

These are the best science fiction novels ever written, as ranked by the votes and lists of the crowd. Anyone can add their picks to this list of sci-fi books, making it an accurate, real-time ranking of the best in the genre by t...

The 13 Best Dystopian Novels

Dystopias have become a fascinating genre over the last century as disillusioned writers witnessed and reacted against imperialism, two world wars, including the Nazi and Stalin regime and the treacherous Holocaust. These writers ...