Albion's Seed by David Hackett FischerIn Small Things Forgotten by James DeetzMigration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World by Alison GamesThe Times of Their Lives by James DeetzMyne Owne Ground by T.H. Breen
Colonial North America (nonfiction)
141 books — 51 voters
Faces in the Water by Janet FramePillars of Salt by Fadia FaqirThe Innocence of the Devil by Nawal El SaadawiHallucinating Foucault by Patricia DunckerIn the Realms of the Unreal by John G. Oakes
Reading About Psychiatric Wards
52 books — 102 voters

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn WaughTom and Viv by Michael   HastingsGut Symmetries by Jeanette WintersonYellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room by Janet FrameThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Unhappy Marriages
507 books — 302 voters

Against Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansHellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford by Linda DowlingLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireSymbolism by Robert GoldwaterVictorian Sexual Dissidence by Richard Dellamora
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 202 voters
The Queue by Basma Abdel AzizOtared by Mohammad RabieI'jaam by Sinan Antoon
Dystopia!
1,232 books — 2,789 voters

To the River by Olivia LaingThe Marsh Arabs by Wilfred ThesigerA River Sutra by Gita MehtaWaterlog by Roger  DeakinMudlark River by Simon Wilcox
Flow: A Watery Reading List
118 books — 12 voters
Filth by William A. CohenThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Broad Street Cholera Epidemic
16 books — 7 voters

Regulating Aversion by Wendy BrownThe Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa LoweThe World Turned Upside Down by Christopher      HillThe Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad by Eqbal AhmadAn Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Best Left-Texts
679 books — 363 voters
The Quest for Christa T. by Christa WolfArcadia by Tom StoppardThe Swimming-Pool Library by Alan HollinghurstNow and Then by William CorlettKindred by Octavia E. Butler
Best Past-Present Books
379 books — 552 voters

Albion's Seed by David Hackett FischerA People's Tragedy by Orlando FigesOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensFire in the Belly by Cynthia CarrMetamorphoses by Ovid
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,876 books — 6,999 voters

In Search of London by H.V. Morton
London Calling
1,236 books — 647 voters
Nightwood by Djuna BarnesGiovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,831 books — 2,211 voters

Possession by A.S. ByattFrisk by Dennis CooperHenry and June by Anaïs Nin
Worst Movies from the Best Books
26 books — 21 voters
The Historian by Elizabeth KostovaSleeping Tiger by Rosamunde PilcherQuiet Days in Clichy by Henry Miller
Books not to read
319 books — 180 voters