Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Favorite Book in the Harry Potter Series
30 books — 1,817 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 — 358 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
3,989 books — 4,409 voters
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
History as Literature
749 books — 656 voters

Njal's Saga by AnonymousBeowulf by UnknownLaxdæla 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
483 books — 1,451 voters

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Russian Literature
522 books — 2,307 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
635 books — 722 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
988 books — 966 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Best French Literature
884 books — 1,577 voters
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
Nobel Laureates
674 books — 572 voters

Independent People by Halldór LaxnessNjal's Saga by AnonymousHunger by Knut Hamsun
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,224 books — 1,251 voters
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
Norse Mythology
300 books — 413 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Kids Books Ever
1,056 books — 778 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
106 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
7,874 books — 49,842 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustIndependent People by Halldór LaxnessNjal's Saga by Anonymous
Best European Literature
828 books — 307 voters

Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,356 books — 4,691 voters