Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Books About Colonialism
692 books — 242 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,518 books — 1,935 voters

Beowulf by Seamus HeaneyThe Year 1000 by Robert LaceyEcclesiastical History of the English People by BedeThe First Poems in English by Michael     AlexanderAlfred the Great by Asser
Best Anglo Saxon books
213 books — 51 voters

Oliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoThe Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan PoeThe Red and the Black by StendhalThe Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
Best Books of the Decade: 1830s
234 books — 219 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceWar and Peace by Leo TolstoySwann's Way by Marcel ProustCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pompous Books to Read in Public
270 books — 161 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir1453 by Roger Crowley
Best Medieval History Books
834 books — 357 voters

Confessions by Augustine of HippoCity of God by Augustine of HippoThe Later Roman Empire by Ammianus MarcellinusThe History of the Church by EusebiusShakuntala by Kālidāsa
Best Books 4th Century
56 books — 106 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


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