Watchmen by Alan MooreThe Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanBatman by Alan MooreBatman by Frank MillerUnderstanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Required Reading Graphic Novels
1,244 books — 2,031 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHamlet by William ShakespeareOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
33,260 books — 126,220 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Science Fiction
3,957 books — 8,227 voters
SPQR by Mary BeardSiam Mapped by Thongchai WinichakulNot Enough by Samuel MoynBlack Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du BoisThe Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
Best History Books
4,173 books — 4,823 voters

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Fall by Albert CamusTraversée de la Mangrove by Maryse CondéSolibo Magnifique by Patrick Chamoiseau
Best French Literature
832 books — 1,584 voters
The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanJimmy Corrigan by Chris WareSwamp Thing, Vol. 1 by Alan MoorePersepolis by Marjane SatrapiThe Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman
Best Graphic Novels
3,535 books — 6,887 voters