A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Collection of Essays by George OrwellThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusArguably by Christopher Hitchens
Best/Favorite Books of Essays
554 books — 248 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
2,993 books — 2,469 voters

White Knuckle by Steven  BruceCrush by Richard SikenAutobiography of Red by Anne CarsonBluets by Maggie NelsonA Village Life by Louise Glück
Best Collection of Poems by Living Authors
1,015 books — 905 voters
The Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwinالقرآن الكريم by AnonymousThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Most Influential Books
1,462 books — 5,288 voters

Broadway General Manager by Peter BogyoGet Real and Get In by Aviva LegattStrange Chemistry by Steven   FarmerThree Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonLongitudes and Attitudes by Thomas L. Friedman
College-Prep Non-fiction Reading List
121 books — 51 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyHamlet by William ShakespeareLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
Best Books for Lit Majors
276 books — 46 voters

Escape to the Maroons by Mike WeedallAnti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard HofstadterThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard BailynThe Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. WoodThe Metaphysical Club  by Louis Menand
US Intellectual History
255 books — 126 voters
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman AlexieLove Medicine by Louise ErdrichCeremony by Leslie Marmon SilkoReservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Native American Fiction
838 books — 640 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseBlood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
The American Frontier
688 books — 157 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownBlack Elk Speaks by John G. NeihardtEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneLakota Woman by Mary Crow DogWhere White Men Fear to Tread by Russell Means
Native American Biography (nonfiction)
430 books — 122 voters


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