A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Collection of Essays by George OrwellThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusArguably by Christopher Hitchens
Best/Favorite Books of Essays
552 books — 247 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareAriel by Sylvia PlathThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Best Poetry Books
2,964 books — 2,410 voters

The Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwinالقرآن الكريم by AnonymousThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,281 voters

Get Real and Get In by Aviva LegattStrange Chemistry by Steven   FarmerThree Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonLongitudes and Attitudes by Thomas L. FriedmanThe Hot Zone by Richard   Preston
College-Prep Non-fiction Reading List
120 books — 23 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Best Books for Lit Majors
276 books — 45 voters

Escape to the Maroons by Mike WeedallAnti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard HofstadterThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard BailynThe Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. WoodThe Metaphysical Club  by Louis Menand
US Intellectual History
255 books — 107 voters
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman AlexieLove Medicine by Louise ErdrichCeremony by Leslie Marmon SilkoIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Native American Fiction
837 books — 638 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseBlood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
The American Frontier
684 books — 153 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownBlack Elk Speaks by John G. NeihardtEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneLakota Woman by Mary Crow DogWhere White Men Fear to Tread by Russell Means
Native American Biography (nonfiction)
429 books — 121 voters


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