Refuge by Terry Tempest WilliamsA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWalden, or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Biographies of Place
279 books — 52 voters
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving StoneMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Art In Books
244 books — 138 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 voters
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantThe Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
Art & Artists in Fiction
945 books — 1,107 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCandide by VoltaireLa vida de Lazarillo de Tormes by Lazarillo de TormesGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Best Picaresque Novels
127 books — 75 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTrainspotting by Irvine WelshInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Transgressive Fiction
871 books — 968 voters

From Girls to Grrrlz  by Trina RobbinsManga by Jason ThompsonSuper Pop! by Daniel G. HarmonCompletely Mad by Maria ReidelbachPopuluxe by Thomas Hine
Pop Culture
51 books — 14 voters