The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverDon't Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel L. EverettMuddling through in Madagascar by Dervla MurphyThe Jungle Books by Rudyard KiplingGorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
Rainforests and Jungles of the World
384 books — 107 voters
The Wild Trees by Richard   PrestonA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Golden Spruce by John VaillantWild and Wonderful by Eanna Ni LamhnaMeetings with Remarkable Trees by Thomas Pakenham
Deciduous and Coniferous Forests
237 books — 27 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoBeowulf by UnknownThe Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioBaudolino by Umberto Eco
Best Middle Ages Books
1,215 books — 1,693 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovLolita by Vladimir NabokovDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakHeart of a Dog by Mikhail BulgakovThe Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,279 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth HuxleyThe Constant Gardener by John le CarréHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Best books for an African Safari
475 books — 525 voters
Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverOne Day in the Tropical Rain Forest by Jean Craighead GeorgeThe Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann
Trees, Woods, Forests
855 books — 204 voters

1984 by George OrwellTolkien On Fairy-stories by J.R.R. TolkienThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,406 books — 119,695 voters
Botany for All Ages by Jorie HunkenVegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands by Dieter Mueller-DomboisAtlas of the Bryophytes of Britain and Ireland, Vol. 1 by M.O. HillThe Poor Had No Lawyers by Andy WightmanThe Liverworts Flora of the British Isles by Jean A. Paton
Botany Reference Books
73 books — 6 voters

The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
Novels in Verse
421 books — 753 voters
1984 by George OrwellLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Trial by Franz KafkaBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
101 books — 479 voters

Imagining the Congo by Kevin DunnHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradNo Mercy by Redmond O'HanlonINFRA by Richard Mosse
Books Set in the Congo
163 books — 92 voters