A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfWest with the Night by Beryl MarkhamIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann JacobsA Bookshop in Berlin by Françoise FrenkelWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Classic Nonfiction
33 books — 6 voters
Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
2,895 books — 2,038 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Italy
977 books — 494 voters
Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelEl llano en llamas by Juan RulfoThe Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio PazLos de abajo by Mariano Azuela
Mexican Literature
394 books — 194 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSo Long a Letter by Mariama BâNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best by African Authors
407 books — 221 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,678 voters