Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThese Truths by Jill LeporeThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanSPQR by Mary BeardThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Women Historians
235 books — 30 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneBeowulf by UnknownThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Favorite Poorly Rated Books
1,519 books — 262 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Absurdist Fiction
314 books — 287 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceHistoire d'O | Story of O by Pauline RéageFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Literary Smut
145 books — 107 voters