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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Tara (8 Lists)



In a Monastery Garden by Elizabeth; Peplow PeplowThe Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair RohdeA Garden of Herbs by Eleanour Sinclair RohdeThe Scented Garden by Eleanour Sinclair RohdeRose Recipes from Olden Times by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Historical Garden Books
8 books — 1 voter
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.Silence by Shūsaku EndōTill We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Catholic Fiction
553 books — 432 voters

The Discarded Image by C.S. LewisInferno by Dante AlighieriA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman1066 by David Howarth
Best Middle Ages Books
1,304 books — 1,780 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books Ever
78,321 books — 292,042 voters

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Best Books About Ancient Rome
757 books — 1,109 voters
The Moviegoer by Walker PercyThe Optimist's Daughter by Eudora WeltyThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtThe Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
Best Southern Literature
1,381 books — 2,605 voters

A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo GutiérrezIn Defense of Food by Michael PollanProfit Over People by Noam ChomskyThe Pursuit of Loneliness by Philip SlaterThe Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,346 books — 1,526 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,829 voters