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
757 books — 673 voters
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorSatantango by László Krasznahorkai
Best New Directions Books
260 books — 179 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann MartelThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeDown and Rising by Rohith S. Katbamna
Best Multicultural General Fiction
595 books — 393 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotAriel by Sylvia Plath
Best Poetry Books
3,110 books — 2,860 voters

The Kaleidoscope by Adrian MendozaThe Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrieThanks to Life by Ericka Kim VerbaSilence on the Mountain by Daniel WilkinsonI, Rigoberta Menchú by Rigoberta Menchú
Latin American Studies
280 books — 36 voters
Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins ReidLove Connection by Camilla IsleyThe Post-Birthday World by Lionel ShriverIn Some Other Life by Jessica BrodyFractured by Dani Atkins
Sliding Doors
41 books — 47 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Stories For Book Lovers
8,530 books — 9,135 voters
ثلاثية غرناطة by Radwa AshourThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAzazil by Youssef ZiedanThe Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Best Middle East Fiction
444 books — 495 voters

Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Flaneur by Edmund WhiteLondon by Peter AckroydThe Old Ways by Robert MacfarlaneGuy Debord and the Situationist International by Tom McDonough
Psychogeography
211 books — 41 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Cult Classics
1,576 books — 2,057 voters

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxManufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Best Left-Texts
683 books — 372 voters
Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
2,983 books — 2,096 voters


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