Hamlet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeMacbeth by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Best Plays Ever
859 books — 1,125 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Top Feminist Books
173 books — 113 voters

Bad Feminist by Roxane GayWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieLife's Work by Willie  ParkerThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodHomegoing by Yaa Gyasi
'Call Your Girlfriend' Reading List
126 books — 36 voters
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesOrlando by Virginia WoolfTwelfth Night by William ShakespeareAlanna by Tamora Pierce
Best Gender-Bending Books
603 books — 452 voters

John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best History Books
3,667 books — 3,695 voters
The Histories by HerodotusA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanJohn Adams by David McCulloughThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
History as Literature
727 books — 535 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoycePhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 363 voters
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques RousseauAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithCandide and Philosophical Letters by VoltaireCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantThe Enlightenment, Volume 1 by Peter Gay
The Enlightenment and its Impact
262 books — 86 voters

The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert FrostThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonThe Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. YeatsThe Complete Poems by John Keats
Best Poets
518 books — 388 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareAriel by Sylvia PlathThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Best Poetry Books
2,971 books — 2,414 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCandide by Voltaire
Good Reading's 100 Significant Books
100 books — 56 voters
1984 by George OrwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenAnimal Farm by George Orwell
The Best Social Studies Library List
233 books — 172 voters