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The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
#BlackLivesMatter Reading List
623 books — 290 voters
Wolf Hustle by Cin FabréThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderSet the Night on Fire by Mike DavisKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Race, Racism and Identity in America (nonfiction)
396 books — 126 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankMein Kampf by Adolf HitlerIn the Garden of Beasts by Erik LarsonI Will Bear Witness 1933-41 by Victor Klemperer
Classics on Nazi Germany
112 books — 76 voters
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanCosmos by Carl Sagan1984 by George OrwellA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
A Nerd's Guide to Reading
254 books — 74 voters

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Children of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserThe Tudors by G.J. MeyerThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
Tudor non-fiction
211 books — 67 voters
Cult Girls by Natalie GrandMaus I by Art SpiegelmanAmerican Born Chinese by Gene Luen YangThe Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Educational Graphic Novels
119 books — 65 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherChasing the Devil by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Assassination of the Archduke by Greg KingThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Microhistories: Microscopic Studies of Individual Events, People and Places
73 books — 57 voters
Year of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksDoomsday Book by Connie WillisWorld Without End by Ken FollettForever Amber by Kathleen WinsorThe Plague by Albert Camus
Bubonic Plague
96 books — 57 voters

Virgin by Hanne BlankCharity and Sylvia by Rachel Hope ClevesMasters of Sex by Thomas MaierUnmentionable by Therese OneillWolf Girls at Vassar by Anne MacKay
Sexuality and History
233 books — 57 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBad Feminist by Roxane GayThe Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah ArendtSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Let's Dismantle the Patriarchy
286 books — 55 voters

Mayflower by Nathaniel PhilbrickA Voyage Long and Strange by Tony HorwitzJohn Adams by David McCulloughAlbion's Seed by David Hackett FischerAmerican Colonies by Alan Taylor
Colonial North America (nonfiction)
142 books — 52 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellStalin by Simon Sebag MontefioreThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Stalinist Russia
154 books — 50 voters

La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall SmithCorelli’s Mandolin by Louis de BernièresThe Violinist of Venice by Alyssa PalomboMarrying Mozart by Stephanie CowellVivaldi's Virgins by Barbara Quick
Music in Historical Fiction
107 books — 50 voters
The Fencers by Geza TatrallyayThe Boys in the Boat by Daniel James BrownUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandLittle Girls in Pretty Boxes by Joan RyanTriumph by Jeremy Schaap
Olympic Athletes
105 books — 49 voters

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund FreudThree Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund FreudThe Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund FreudTotem and Taboo by Sigmund FreudBeyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings by Sigmund Freud
Freud and Psychoanalysis
37 books — 42 voters
Same Old Truths by Delora DennisThe Green Reaper by Elizabeth FournierDéjà Dead by Kathy ReichsThe Coroner's Lunch by Colin CotterillThe Sinner by Tess Gerritsen
Death becomes him or her
116 books — 40 voters

John Adams by David McCulloughWashington by Ron ChernowTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinDestiny of the Republic by Candice MillardThe President and the Assassin by Scott Miller
Presidents Reading Project
78 books — 40 voters
Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora KroeberSan Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries by Beth WinegarnerThe World Rushed In by J.S. HollidayHistoric San Francisco by Rand RichardsSeason of the Witch by David Talbot
Northern Californian history (nonfiction)
123 books — 36 voters

Fun Home by Alison BechdelStone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick BurdOdd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman
Stonewall Book Award Winners
110 books — 34 voters
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham HancockUriel's Machine by Christopher KnightForbidden Archeology by Michael A. CremoAtlantis by Ignatius L. DonnellyFrom the Ashes of Angels by Andrew Collins
Ancient Mysteries
144 books — 34 voters

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeThe Troubles by Tim Pat CooganThe Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-SmithEarly Irish Myths and Sagas by AnonymousWar and an Irish Town by Eamonn McCann
Irish History
254 books — 34 voters
Paul & Kiki's Guide to Vacationing in Italy by Paul StuartA Thousand Days in Tuscany by Marlena de BlasiThe Tuscan Secret by Angela PetchNow and Then in Tuscany by Angela PetchUnder the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
Tuscany
47 books — 32 voters

Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb TsipurskyThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul Ola
Books That No One Should Forget
20 books — 32 voters
Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinConspiracy in the Streets by Jon WienerDetroit by Charlie LeDuffThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Histories of United States Cities I (nonfiction)
275 books — 31 voters

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisTheodore Rex by Edmund MorrisThe River of Doubt by Candice MillardMornings on Horseback by David McCulloughColonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Theodore Roosevelt Books (nonfiction)
60 books — 30 voters
American Sphinx by Joseph J. EllisThomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings by Annette Gordon-ReedThomas Jefferson by Jon MeachamThomas Jefferson by Christopher HitchensThe Pirate Coast by Richard Zacks
Jeffersonian Books (fiction and nonfiction)
80 books — 28 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanA Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. MaasReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Top Picks of the Past 10 Years
195 books — 26 voters
Big Freedia by Big FreediaSexuality and Its Impact on History by Hunter S. JonesCreole by Sybil KeinBlack Life in Old New Orleans by Keith MedleyThe World That Made New Orleans by Ned Sublette
New Orleans (nonfiction)
93 books — 25 voters

After Elizabeth by Leanda de LisleRestoration London by Liza PicardThe Weaker Vessel by Antonia FraserMary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison WeirUngrateful Daughters by Maureen Waller
Best House of Stuart Biographies and Histories
147 books — 23 voters
Wolf Brother by Michelle PaverStig of the Dump by Clive KingThe Faraway Lurs by Harry BehnWarrior Scarlet by Rosemary SutcliffA Bone from a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson
Prehistory in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
102 books — 20 voters

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