Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonBlood River by Tim ButcherThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,169 books — 1,895 voters

I, Claudius by Robert GravesThe First Man in Rome by Colleen McCulloughClaudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert GravesThe Twelve Caesars by SuetoniusPompeii by Robert   Harris
Best Books About Ancient Rome
748 books — 1,100 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,749 books — 6,904 voters

Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelEl llano en llamas by Juan RulfoThe Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio PazSueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos by José Baroja
Mexican Literature
393 books — 220 voters
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelPrayers for the Stolen by Jennifer ClementSend More Idiots by Tony Perez-GieseAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Books Set in Mexico
479 books — 188 voters

Heat of Paris by Peter BreyerOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelAztec by Gary Jennings
Historical Fiction set in Latin America
164 books — 137 voters
Catechism of the Catholic Church by Catholic ChurchStory of a Soul by Thérèse of LisieuxConfessions by Augustine of HippoThe Imitation of Christ by Thomas à KempisDark Night of the Soul by John of the Cross
Roman Catholic Reading
586 books — 275 voters