Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiBattle Royale by Koushun Takami1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
777 books — 3,252 voters
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 Unknown
Best Middle Ages Books
1,249 books — 1,738 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Wars of the Roses by Alison WeirThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison WeirThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
British History
787 books — 203 voters
The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher      HillGod's Englishman by Christopher      HillThe English Civil War by Diane PurkissCavaliers and Roundheads by Christopher HibbertThe Major Works by John Milton
The English Civil Wars 1640 - 1660
95 books — 36 voters

Girl at War by Sara NovićThe Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven GallowayAs Long As Sarajevo Exists by Kemal KurspahićZlata's Diary by Zlata FilipovićSarajevo by Zlatko Dizdarević
Books on the Bosnian War of the 1990s
77 books — 58 voters
The Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanPostwar by Tony JudtThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
European History
788 books — 160 voters

The Rape of Europa by Lynn H. NicholasThe Monuments Men by Robert M. EdselThe $12 Million Stuffed Shark by Don   ThompsonI Was Vermeer by Frank WynneBreakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook
Materiality & Value of Art In Flux
44 books — 14 voters
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuDream of the Red Chamber by Cao XueqinThe Pillow Book by Sei ShōnagonTao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Arabian Nights by Anonymous
Asian Classics
183 books — 58 voters

The Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Price of Glory by Alistair HorneThe War That Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillanThe First World War by John KeeganStorm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
Military History of the First World War
305 books — 119 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best History Books
3,884 books — 3,926 voters

Se questo è un uomo by Primo LeviIl Gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaIl nome della rosa by Umberto EcoLa coscienza di Zeno by Italo SvevoIl giorno della civetta by Leonardo Sciascia
Grandi narratori italiani del '900
131 books — 61 voters
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanIn Defense of Food by Michael PollanFood and Culture by Carole CounihanAn Edible History of Humanity by Tom StandageFood Politics by Marion Nestle
Global Citizenship: Food
68 books — 16 voters