Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe Modern Mind by Peter WatsonThe Passion of the Western Mind by Richard TarnasIdeas by Peter Watson
History of ideas and culture
10th out of 109 books — 26 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliParadise Lost by John MiltonRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Renaissance Literature Reading List
64th out of 81 books — 55 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
1590th out of 6,236 books — 8,067 voters

Will in the World by Stephen GreenblattShakespeare by Bill BrysonA Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James ShapiroShakespeare by Harold BloomShakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber
Best Books About Shakespeare
232nd out of 262 books — 166 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Books Ever
31272nd out of 76,958 books — 286,421 voters

The Odyssey by HomerThe Republic by PlatoTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William ShakespeareCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best books for humanities degree
366th out of 408 books — 93 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
462nd out of 906 books — 1,255 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
3671st out of 7,889 books — 49,787 voters
DNA by James D. WatsonLove at Goon Park by Deborah BlumThe Beak of the Finch by Jonathan WeinerThe Invention of Nature by Andrea WulfA Student's Guide to Natural Science by Stephen M.  Barr
(i) Natural Science / History
54th out of 100 books — 4 voters

The Historian's Craft by Marc BlochWhat Is History? by Edward Hallett CarrThe Landscape of History by John Lewis GaddisWho Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.The Idea of History by R.G. Collingwood
Historiography
74th out of 78 books — 11 voters
The Science of Logic by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelRécoltes et semailles by Alexandre GrothendieckPleromatica, or Elsinore's Trance by Gabriel CatrenThe Blind Spot by Jean-Yves GirardIdeas by Edmund Husserl
Speculative World-System
56th out of 100 books — 1 voter