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
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477 books — 95 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotAriel by Sylvia Plath
Best Poetry Books
2,997 books — 2,478 voters

Beowulf by UnknownThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Burton RaffelThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriLe Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Best Medieval Literature
164 books — 133 voters