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
295 books — 88 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 — 188 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 — 357 voters

Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliMuch Ado About Nothing by William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
189 books — 548 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 — 163 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
3,021 books — 4,398 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
630 books — 910 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
586 books — 409 voters
Beowulf by Seamus HeaneyShahnameh 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 — 74 voters