Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Favorite Book in the Harry Potter Series
37 books — 1,839 voters
Under Fire by Henri BarbusseAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueGoodbye to All That by Robert GravesThe Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred OwenSelected Poems and Letters by Isaac Rosenberg
World War One Literature
226 books — 357 voters

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonHitler by Ian KershawThe Great Cat Massacre by Robert DarntonThe Rise of Western Christendom by Peter         BrownYoung Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Best History Books
4,166 books — 4,809 voters
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
History as Literature
757 books — 671 voters

Njal's Saga by AnonymousBeowulf by Seamus HeaneyLaxdæla Saga by UnknownSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain PoetEgil's Saga by Anonymous
Best Medieval Literature
166 books — 134 voters
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain Poet
Best Arthurian Fiction
484 books — 1,464 voters

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Russian Literature
501 books — 2,311 voters
The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Canadian Fiction
1,042 books — 610 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeSelected Poems, 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
Best Irish Literature
651 books — 730 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
999 books — 973 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Best French Literature
832 books — 1,584 voters
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
Nobel Laureates
674 books — 578 voters

Independent People by Halldór LaxnessNjal's Saga by AnonymousHunger by Knut Hamsun
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,215 books — 1,261 voters
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
Norse Mythology
303 books — 423 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Kids Books Ever
1,070 books — 999 voters
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareOthello by William ShakespeareMuch Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
117 books — 1,253 voters

Independent People by Halldór Laxness1984 by George OrwellOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,896 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustIndependent People by Halldór LaxnessNjal's Saga by Anonymous
Best European Literature
842 books — 310 voters

Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,398 books — 4,738 voters