Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryTrue Grit by Charles PortisBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Best Westerns
1,377 books — 1,502 voters
Stoner by John  WilliamsChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 890 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryHoles by Louis SacharA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleNumber the Stars by Lois LowryBridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The Most Deserving Newbery
116 books — 3,000 voters
Antigone by SophoclesOedipus Rex by SophoclesThe Oresteia by AeschylusMedea by EuripidesThe Bacchae by Euripides
Ancient Greek Drama
146 books — 53 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
2,983 books — 2,424 voters
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Greek Myths by Robert GravesAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis CarrollEmpires of the Ancient Near East by J.M. Cook
Folio Society Editions
446 books — 66 voters

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Republic by PlatoCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantMeditations by Marcus AureliusFrom Darkness Into Light by A. Helwa
Best World Philosophy Book
953 books — 1,420 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand1984 by George OrwellThe Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. HayekEconomics in One Lesson by Henry HazlittThe Law by Frédéric Bastiat
Best Libertarian Books
385 books — 288 voters

The Republic by PlatoThe Decline of the West by Oswald SpenglerThe Camp of the Saints by Jean RaspailRide the Tiger by Julius EvolaIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski
/lit/ guide to right wing literature
120 books — 38 voters
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickSix Frigates by Ian W. TollOver the Edge of the World by Laurence BergreenLongitude by Dava SobelCaptain Kidd by Samuel Marquis
Age of Sail Nonfiction
355 books — 90 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonHunger by Knut Hamsun
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,210 books — 1,244 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerBeowulf by UnknownThe Odyssey by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
World's Greatest Epics
204 books — 134 voters


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