Early Netherlandish Painting by Erwin PanofskyThe Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind E. KraussPrinciples of Art History by Heinrich WölfflinCézanne by Roger Eliot FryThe Nude by Kenneth M. Clark
The Books that Shaped Art History
17 books — 6 voters
Papyrus by John GaudetA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererEcology, Community and Lifestyle by Arne NæssSoil and Soul by Alastair McIntosh
Deep Ecology
71 books — 38 voters

Undoing the Demos by Wendy BrownThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA Brief History of Neoliberalism by David HarveyCapital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas PikettyThe Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, a... by Lisa Duggan
Neoliberalism
137 books — 24 voters

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy DebordThe Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving GoffmanThe Railway Journey by Wolfgang SchivelbuschSimians, Cyborgs, and Women by Donna J. HarawayAmbient Findability by Peter Morville
Books on Cyborg Anthropology
27 books — 4 voters
Touching Feeling by Eve Kosofsky SedgwickAn Archive of Feelings by Ann CvetkovichCruel Optimism by Lauren BerlantThe Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara AhmedOrdinary Affects by Kathleen  Stewart
Affect Theory
22 books — 13 voters

A Conceptual Circus by Kenneth Jarrett SingletonLunch Poems by Frank O'HaraCollected Works by Lorine NiedeckerTender Buttons by Gertrude SteinThe Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara
Modern Poetry/ Poetics List
62 books — 36 voters
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max HorkheimerGender Trouble by Judith ButlerPostmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric JamesonHistory and Class Consciousness by György LukácsImagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
Mapping Critical Theory
107 books — 41 voters

Over de esthetiek by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelCritique of Judgment by Immanuel KantOn the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich SchillerAesthetic Theory by Theodor W. AdornoThe Republic by Plato
Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art
190 books — 75 voters
The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Republic by PlatoMeditations by Marcus Aurelius
Best Books of the Ancient World
277 books — 296 voters