The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantBrunelleschi's Dome by Ross KingThe House of Medici by Christopher HibbertThe Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Italian Renaissance
22nd out of 283 books — 174 voters
Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliMuch Ado About Nothing by William ShakespeareJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
57th out of 192 books — 545 voters

Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross KingThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison WeirThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert
Best Books on the Renaissance
27th out of 187 books — 104 voters
Beowulf by UnknownChaucer's Canterbury Tales by Marcia  WilliamsSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Burton RaffelThe Consolation of Philosophy by BoethiusArthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes
Books Important to Scholars of the Middle Ages
39th out of 195 books — 42 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneLord of the Flies by William GoldingBeowulf by UnknownGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal
276th out of 463 books — 1,588 voters
Escape to the Maroons by Mike WeedallLife in a Medieval City by Frances GiesAt Home by Bill BrysonA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanA History of Private Life by Philippe Ariès
Social History Books - All About People & Society
152nd out of 773 books — 208 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHamlet by William Shakespeare
Best Books From Before 1950
223rd out of 543 books — 136 voters
Diplomacy by Henry KissingerAmerican Diplomacy by George F. KennanDiplomat of Uram by Richard R. MatthewsThe Ambassadors by Henry JamesWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Diplomacy in Book Titles
31st out of 154 books — 45 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienCarrie by Stephen  KingThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Complete 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
662nd out of 990 books — 18 voters
Steve Jobs by Walter IsaacsonMr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher IsherwoodThe Prophet by Kahlil GibranThe Book of the Courtier by Baldassare CastiglioneDifficult Men by Brett Martin
recommended/mentioned by frank ocean
4th out of 9 books — 1 voter

The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliPraise of Folly by ErasmusMémoires by Philippe de CominesRelazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo by Antonio PigafettaLetters from Mexico by Hernán Cortés
Uno Cinco Cero Cero
11th out of 18 books — 2 voters
The Anxiety of Influence by Harold BloomSexual Deviation by Anthony StorrFurther Contributions to the Theory and Technique of Psychoan... by Sándor FerencziLord Byron's Marriage by George Wilson KnightSexuality and the Psychology of Love by Sigmund Freud
Cited in Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae (ch. 1-7)
74th out of 100 books — 1 voter

A Brother's Price by Wen SpencerThe Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. TepperThe Female Man by Joanna RussCirce by Madeline MillerDaughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
Gynarchy
148th out of 169 books — 33 voters
Emily Post's Etiquette by Emily PostWatching the English by Kate FoxThe Soul of Civility by Alexandra HudsonGeorge Washington's Rules of Civility by Moncure Daniel ConwayA Guide to Elegance by Geneviève Antoine Dariaux
Manners and Etiquette
7th out of 46 books — 10 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyPersuasion by Jane AustenThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1000 books to read before you die- official
433rd out of 472 books — 25 voters
The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare CastiglioneThe Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious by Sigmund FreudThe Act of Creation by Arthur KoestlerTrickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde
Best Books about Wit
1st out of 4 books — 1 voter

Steve Jobs by Walter IsaacsonMr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher IsherwoodThe Prophet by Kahlil GibranThe Book of the Courtier by Baldassare CastiglioneDifficult Men by Brett Martin
Frank Ocean's Favourites
4th out of 8 books — 1 voter

Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Courtiers by Lucy WorsleyLadies In Waiting by Anne SomersetMemoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon by Louis de Rouvroy de Saint-S...Sex with the Queen by Eleanor Herman
Nonfiction Books on Life at Royal Courts
73rd out of 219 books — 19 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoJonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard BachThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
How DID They Become Classics?
91st out of 108 books — 174 voters