The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerWorld Without End by Ken FollettBeowulf by Beowulf Poet
Best Middle Ages Books
1,209 books — 1,682 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCatch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrAtonement by Ian McEwan
World War II Fiction
1,277 books — 2,001 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,744 books — 1,617 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Trial by Franz KafkaSteppenwolf by Hermann HessePerfume by Patrick Süskind
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,028 books — 952 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Most influential books under 100 pages
249 books — 923 voters
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe History of England by Jane AustenThe Voyages of Odysseus by HomerThe First Three Circles of Hell by Dante Alighieri
Penguin 60s Classics (Black)
60 books — 10 voters

World War Z by Max BrooksThe Zombie Survival Guide by Max BrooksThe Walking Dead, Vol. 1 by Robert KirkmanFeed by Mira GrantPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
Zombies!
1,659 books — 4,315 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Children's Lit Before 1923
243 books — 111 voters

On the Road by Jack KerouacHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsJunky by William S. Burroughs
Beat Lit
235 books — 182 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayJust Kids by Patti SmithSlouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan DidionBossypants by Tina Fey
65 books to read in your twenties
65 books — 31 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Rory's Book Club
173 books — 91 voters