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Aurora by G.M.J.Journey to the West by Biao WangTithing and Giving by J.A. CoxThe Real Book of the Dead by Collette SinclaireInterviews With the Dead, Part 1 by Collette Sinclaire
Great Inspirational Reads
163 books — 171 voters
Journey to the West by Biao WangDark Skies by David HaldaneI Must Have Wandered by Mary Ellen GambuttiDouble Happiness by Tony BrasunasPrivate Battles and The Khaki Cage by Jennie Laine Rylan
Brilliant Memoirs
127 books — 138 voters

Bel Canto by Ann PatchettCloud Atlas by David MitchellAmadeus by Peter ShafferDoctor Faustus by Thomas MannThe Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Classical Music themes in Literature
167 books — 113 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherTithing and Giving by J.A. CoxThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. JacobsThe Trigger by Tim ButcherAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Memoirs of Experiments
236 books — 97 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherJourney to the West by Biao WangThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Vote For Your 100 Favorite Non-Fiction Books of All Time
413 books — 96 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian Social History
291 books — 86 voters

My Fight / Your Fight by Ronda RouseyThe Frailty Myth by Colette DowlingBloomer Girls by Debra A. ShattuckDust Bowl Girls by Lydia ReederHer Own Hero by Wendy L. Rouse
Non-Fiction About Women in Sports
334 books — 81 voters
Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen LevineMartin's Big Words by Doreen RappaportMoses by Carole Boston WeatherfordDave the Potter by Laban Carrick HillRosa by Nikki Giovanni
African American Picture Book Biographies
262 books — 71 voters

Hunger by Roxane GayDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSouth and West by Joan DidionThe Radium Girls by Kate MooreThe Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
244 books — 70 voters
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffJane Austen's Letters by Jane AustenLetters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt StewartThe Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Pierre AbélardWest from Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Women's Correspondence - Letters in History
212 books — 69 voters

The Patient by Steena HolmesDear George, Dear Mary by Mary CalviDear Wife by Kimberly BelleMeet Me in Monaco by Hazel GaynorThe Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor
Books I plan to read in 2019
220 books — 68 voters
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinJohn Adams by David McCulloughTruman by David McCulloughWashington by Ron ChernowTheodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Positively Presidential (nonfiction)
366 books — 67 voters

Dark Skies by David HaldaneThelonious Monk by Robin D.G. KelleyMiles by Miles DavisA Love Supreme by Ashley KahnMoving to Higher Ground by Wynton Marsalis
Books on Jazz (nonfiction)
231 books — 66 voters
Rosalind Franklin by Brenda MaddoxHidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyNobel Prize Women in Science by Sharon Bertsch McGrayneThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootLise Meitner by Ruth Lewin Sime
Biographies About Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
87 books — 63 voters

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard BailynThe Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. WoodThe Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. WoodAmerican Scripture by Pauline MaierAmerican Colonies by Alan Taylor
Historiography of the American Revolution, 1607-1800 (nonfiction)
127 books — 61 voters
Born Free by Joy AdamsonForever Free by Joy AdamsonLiving Free by Joy AdamsonTrancing the Tiger by Rachael SlateThe Wilderness Family by Kobie Krüger
Books about Big Cats
255 books — 59 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelLife, the Universe and Everything by Douglas AdamsThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Story of My Life by Helen KellerIf Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck
This is the.......life
1,162 books — 57 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Story of My Life by Helen KellerOut of Africa by Isak DinesenMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Unusual women in history
335 books — 54 voters

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. MassieCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassieThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserThe Children of Henry VIII by Alison WeirLove and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser
Royal Biographies
316 books — 52 voters
Pro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
"Best" Political Reads
106 books — 52 voters

The Lost Crown by Sarah MillerAnastasia by Carolyn MeyerThe Diary of Olga Romanov by Helen AzarThe Romanov Sisters by Helen RappaportAnastasia's Album by Hugh Brewster
Best Books of the Romanov Sisters
20 books — 51 voters
The Trigger by Tim ButcherDestiny of the Republic by Candice MillardHellhound on His Trail by Hampton SidesCase Closed by Gerald PosnerBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Assassination
156 books — 50 voters

God's Playground by Norman DaviesWhite Eagle, Red Star by Norman DaviesGod's Playground by Norman DaviesThe Polish Way by Adam ZamoyskiForgotten Holocaust by Richard C. Lukas
Best of Polish History
205 books — 48 voters
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel PoolVictorian London by Liza PicardSexuality and Its Impact on History by Hunter S. JonesThe Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate SummerscaleThe Victorians by A.N. Wilson
Victorian Britain (nonfiction)
140 books — 48 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Titles with 5 words or more
871 books — 48 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankTuesdays with Morrie by Mitch AlbomEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertA Grief Observed by C.S. LewisAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Goodreads Filipino Group - Favorite Bio/Memoirs
38 books — 45 voters

The Immigrant by Nery McMahonLong Walk to Freedom by Nelson MandelaJimi Hendrix by Corey A. WashingtonI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiShahabnama / شہاب نامہ by Qudratullah Shahab
Best Inspirational Biographies
105 books — 44 voters
Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan BandyopadhyayEast-West by Sunil GangopadhyaySrikanta by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyayব্যোমকেশ সমগ্র by Sharadindu BandyopadhyayShonku Samagra by Satyajit Ray
Top 100 Bengali Books (Translated in other language).
67 books — 42 voters

The Immigrant by Nery McMahonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiMy Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria HoustonAdventure, romance and war in the Far East by Iris Hay-Edie
True Stories of Great Women
175 books — 41 voters
Funny Story by Emily HenryCheck & Mate by Ali HazelwoodNorth Woods by Daniel MasonThe Women by Kristin HannahButcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
2024: What Women Born in the 1980's are Reading in 2024
1,055 books — 40 voters

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