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

Classic American Novels

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Classic American Novels” of All Time
Source: Goodreads

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
4. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

True Crime

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The Top 5 Most Picked “True Cime Novels” of All Time
Source: Goodreads

1. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
3. The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story by Ann Rule
4. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
5. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi

Southern Gothic

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Southern Gothics” of All Time
Source: Goodreads

1. To Kill a Mockingbird 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

Indian Literature

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Indian Literature” of All Time
Source: Goodreads

1. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
2. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
3. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
4. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
5. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Epic Poetry

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Epic Poetry” of All Time
Source: Goodreads

1. The Odyssey by Homer
2. The Iliad by Homer
3. Beowulf by Unknown
4. Paradise Lost by John Milton
5. The Aeneid by Virgil

Cities / Urban planning

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Cities / Urban Planning Books” of All Time
Source: Goodreads

1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
2. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
3. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
4. The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
5. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler

Argentinian Literature

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Argentinian Literature” of All Time
Source: Goodreads

1. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
2. El túnel by Ernesto Sabato
3. The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
4. Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
5. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

Non-Fiction Physics

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Non-Fiction Physics” of All Time
Source: Goodreads

1. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
2. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
3. “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
4. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feynman
5. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene

Books Spanning a Full Lifespan or multiple generations

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The Top 5 Most Picked “Books Spanning a Full Lifespan or Multiple Generations”.
Source: Goodreads

1. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
2. The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass
3. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
4. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
5. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

Horror

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

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