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The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserThe Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de PizanThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison WeirThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France
From Adam's Rib? -- Women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
282 books — 138 voters
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison WeirMarie Antoinette by Antonia FraserCitizens by Simon SchamaThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
French History
291 books — 85 voters

The Prose Edda by Snorri SturlusonThe Nibelungenlied by UnknownThe Travels by Marco PoloSumma Theologica by Thomas AquinasThe Essential Rumi by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
Best Books of the 13th Century
72 books — 186 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain PoetThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioInferno by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 353 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
190 books — 544 voters
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas MaloryThe Mabinogion by UnknownThe Imitation of Christ by Thomas à KempisThe Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de PizanLa Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
Best Books of the 15th Century
72 books — 162 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,865 books — 4,171 voters
Stoner by John WilliamsChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
New York Review Books - Classics
632 books — 905 voters

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. MassieThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassiePeter the Great by Robert K. MassieA People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes
Best Russian History Books
590 books — 424 voters
Beowulf by UnknownShahnameh by Abolqasem FerdowsiThe plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim by HrotsvithaFrom The Meadows of Gold by al-Mas'udiThe Táin by Anonymous
Best Books of the 10th Century
13 books — 70 voters