A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayWill in the World by Stephen GreenblattI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellOut of Africa / Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Literary biographies
477 books — 95 voters
The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie BenjaminThe Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson CooperThe Power of Style by Annette TapertTruman Capote by George PlimptonCapote in Kansas by Kim Powers
Capote's Swans
40 books — 5 voters

The Western Canon by Harold BloomIlluminations by Walter BenjaminAspects of the Novel by E.M. ForsterPoetics by AristotleWhy Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Works of Literary Criticism
463 books — 107 voters
The Story of Art by E.H. GombrichThe Letters of Vincent van Gogh by Vincent van GoghThe Shock of the New by Robert HughesThe Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving StoneThe Judgment of Paris by Ross King
Best Art and Art History Books
773 books — 312 voters

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela CarterJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeBeauty by Robin McKinleyRose Daughter by Robin McKinleyPossession by A.S. Byatt
Endicott's Fairy Tales List
72 books — 64 voters

H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldWaterlog by Roger  DeakinThe Old Ways by Robert MacfarlaneThe Wild Places by Robert MacfarlaneFindings by Kathleen Jamie
British and Irish Nature Writing
249 books — 168 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTropic of Cancer by Henry MillerOn the Road by Jack KerouacAsk the Dust by John FanteNobody Special by Jack Deadmen
The Lonesome Narrator
36 books — 15 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë1984 by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books on Loneliness
513 books — 494 voters


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