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
468 books — 109 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Best French Literature
884 books — 1,577 voters

The House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosBorderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaWoman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra CisnerosThis Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. MoragaBless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Chicano Chicana Chicanx
162 books — 102 voters
Understanding Power by Noam ChomskyThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinFailed States by Noam ChomskyHegemony or Survival by Noam ChomskyCapital by Karl Marx
Emancipatory Left
127 books — 61 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Philosophical Literature
1,207 books — 2,879 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Latin American Fiction
901 books — 1,222 voters

The Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxDas Kapital by Karl MarxThe State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninReform or Revolution by Rosa LuxemburgSocialism by Friedrich Engels
Socialist Classics
424 books — 337 voters