What to Read? 3 Best Books To Read For A Beginner, Veteran and Expert from Each Genre – Part 1

MURDER MYSTERIES

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Murder Mystery Books” of All Time
Source: Goodreads

1. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
2. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
3. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
5. The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith

OUT TO SEA

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Sea Books” of All Time
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1. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
2. Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
3. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
4. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
5. Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian

WORLD WAR 1

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The Top 5 Most Picked “World War 1 Books” of All Time
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1. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
2. The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
3. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
4. The First World War by John Keegan
5. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

GRAPHIC NOVELS / COMICS

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Graphic Novels / Comics” of All Time
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1. Watchmen by Alan Moore
2. Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
3. Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
4. Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
5. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

SOUTHERN GOTHIC

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Southern Gothic Literatures” of All Time
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1. To Kill a Mockingbird by by Harper Lee
2. Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
3. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
4. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
5. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

SCIENCE FICTION

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Science Fiction Books” of All Time
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1. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. The Martian by Andy Weir
5. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy texts to help us understand literature, the world, and ourselves.

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Philosophy Books” of All Time
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1. The Republic by Plato
2. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
3. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
4. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
5. Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder

CHILDREN

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Children’s Books” of All Time
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1. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
3. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
5. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Western

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Western Books” of All Time
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1. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
2. True Grit by Charles Portis
3. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
4. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
5. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Horror

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Horror Books” of All Time
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1. The Shining by Stephen King
2. It by Stephen King
3. Dracula by Bram Stoker
4. Carrie by Stephen King
5. Pet Sematary by Stephen King