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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
552 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
1,316 books — 1,918 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books Ever
78,993 books — 294,138 voters

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Best Books About Ancient Rome
761 books — 1,148 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
1,394 books — 2,611 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
1,381 books — 1,640 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,877 books — 49,844 voters