The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerWorld Without End by Ken FollettBeowulf by Unknown
Best Middle Ages Books
1,215 books — 1,688 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSo Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
African Fiction
600 books — 427 voters

Testament of Youth by Vera BrittainMy Whirlwind Lives by Dee KnightHet Achterhuis by Anne FrankVirginia Woolf by Hermione LeeCall the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
Herstory
588 books — 92 voters
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiSnow Country by Yasunari KawabataRashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japanese Literature
310 books — 389 voters

The Desert and the Dancing Girls by Gustave FlaubertCloud, Castle, Lake by Vladimir NabokovSeventeen Poisoned Englishmen by Gabriel García MárquezThe View from Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins2 Stars by Paul Theroux
Pocket Penguin 70s
70 books — 5 voters
2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeDune by Frank HerbertThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Once and Future King by T.H. White
Penguin Galaxy Series
6 books — 9 voters

Desire by Haruki MurakamiDepression by William StyronRace by Toni MorrisonWork by Joseph HellerDeath by Julian Barnes
Vintage Minis
43 books — 21 voters
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre LordeNotes on Nationalism by George OrwellLetter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.Three Japanese Short Stories by Ryūnosuke AkutagawaThe Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson
Penguin Modern
50 books — 51 voters

You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave EggersA Hologram for the King by Dave EggersAll My Puny Sorrows by Miriam ToewsThe Wild Things by Dave EggersMaps and Legends by Michael Chabon
Mc Sweeney's Fiction & Non-Fiction
88 books — 4 voters
Brooklyn Noir by Tim McLoughlinLone Star Noir by James CrumleyKansas City Noir by Steve PaulDallas Noir by David Hale SmithPhoenix Noir by Patrick Millikin
Akashic Noir Collections
121 books — 33 voters

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred WatsonMiss Buncle's Book by D.E. StevensonSomeone at a Distance by Dorothy WhippleThe Making of a Marchioness, Part I and II by Frances Hodgson BurnettMariana by Monica Dickens
Best Persephone Books
150 books — 165 voters


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