Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Favorite Book in the Harry Potter Series
23 books — 1,798 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
3,925 books — 4,026 voters
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
History as Literature
745 books — 662 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
165 books — 134 voters
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain Poet
Best Arthurian Fiction
482 books — 1,450 voters

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Russian Literature
521 books — 2,296 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
633 books — 722 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
987 books — 963 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Best French Literature
884 books — 1,574 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
1,222 books — 1,247 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 — 780 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
105 books — 1,243 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
7,893 books — 49,819 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustIndependent People by Halldór LaxnessNjal's Saga by Anonymous
Best European Literature
828 books — 306 voters

Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,347 books — 4,645 voters