Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Favorite Book in the Harry Potter Series
34 books — 1,813 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
224 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
3,758 books — 3,792 voters
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
History as Literature
732 books — 536 voters

Njal's Saga by AnonymousBeowulf by UnknownLaxdæla Saga by UnknownSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Burton RaffelEgil's Saga by Anonymous
Best Medieval Literature
164 books — 133 voters
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Burton Raffel
Best Arthurian Fiction
480 books — 1,446 voters

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Russian Literature
514 books — 2,284 voters
The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Canadian Fiction
1,042 books — 605 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeSelected Poems, 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
Best Irish Literature
632 books — 721 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
975 books — 958 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Best French Literature
884 books — 1,574 voters
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
Nobel Laureates
660 books — 569 voters

Independent People by Halldór LaxnessNjal's Saga by AnonymousHunger by Knut Hamsun
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,210 books — 1,245 voters
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
Norse Mythology
293 books — 411 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Kids Books Ever
1,047 books — 753 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
104 books — 1,247 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
7,899 books — 49,787 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustIndependent People by Halldór LaxnessNjal's Saga by Anonymous
Best European Literature
807 books — 305 voters

Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,313 books — 4,563 voters