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The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellThe Great Weather Diviner by Rob Long
All Creatures Great and Small
1,368 books — 192 voters
Journey to the West by Biao WangThe Art of War by Sun TzuThe Color of Jadeite by Eric D. GoodmanThe Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangThe Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson
China for the non-Chinese
139 books — 79 voters

The Premonition by Michael LewisAnatomy of COVID Calamity by Widad AkreyiThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul OlaThe Pendulum has Swung too far by Karl WigginsFeel Me by James Hudson
COVID-19 Pandemic
149 books — 73 voters
Get Well Soon by Jennifer WrightThe Butchering Art by Lindsey FitzharrisDr. Mütter's Marvels by Cristin O'Keefe AptowiczThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah BlumThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Medical History & Similar
193 books — 40 voters

Unseen City by Nathanael JohnsonThe Urban Bestiary by Lyanda Lynn HauptLook Up! by Annette LeBlanc CateDarwin Comes to Town by Menno SchilthuizenWild Urban Plants of the Northeast by Peter del Tredici
Nature in the Suburban and Urban Environment
293 books — 33 voters
Gator Country by Rebecca RennerDeep and Dirty by Douglas DellPrey of Desire by J.C. GatlinThe List of Dead Smiths by D.L. WilliamsA Tree Born Crooked by Steph Post
Best Books by Florida Writers
136 books — 32 voters

Watership Down by Richard AdamsThe Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrieThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
Best Books to Allay Boredom
110 books — 30 voters
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThese Truths by Jill LeporeThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanSPQR by Mary BeardThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Women Historians
234 books — 30 voters

The Pool and the Pedestal by Daniel McHughA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Trees and the Night by Daniel McHughThe Merchant and the Menace by Daniel McHughThe Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien
Old Timey-Times Fantasy
37 books — 29 voters
Dr. Faustus by Christopher MarloweEdward II by Christopher MarloweThe Complete Poems by Ben JonsonThe Complete Plays by Christopher MarloweThe Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
Shakespeare's Contemporaries
106 books — 28 voters

Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1 by Blanche Wiesen CookEleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2 by Blanche Wiesen CookUpstairs at the White House by J.B. WestBecoming by Michelle ObamaSecret Lives of the First Ladies by Cormac O'Brien
U.S. First Ladies (nonfiction)
139 books — 28 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerCall the Midwife by Jennifer WorthThe 19th Wife by David EbershoffThe Kitchen God's Wife by Amy TanThe Perfect Wife by Lynsay Sands
Will you be my..........wife?
252 books — 28 voters

FDR by Jean Edward SmithFranklin and Winston by Jon MeachamNo Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns GoodwinEleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. LashTraitor to His Class by H.W. Brands
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Reading List (nonfiction)
134 books — 28 voters
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysUntil the Robin Walks on Snow by Bernice L. RocqueWe Are Here by Ellen CassedyWhite Field, Black Sheep by Daiva MarkelisUnderground by Antanas Šileika
Books of Lithuania
51 books — 27 voters

Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle MoranMara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGrawCleopatra VII by Kristiana GregoryCleopatra's Moon by Vicky Alvear ShecterCurses and Smoke by Vicky Alvear Shecter
Young Adult Books in Ancient Civilizations
107 books — 27 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Help by Kathryn StockettJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
What took me so long?
114 books — 27 voters

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsMade in Russia by Michael IdovGrunt by Mary RoachPacking for Mars by Mary RoachOriginal Copies by Bianca Bosker
99% Invisible books (nonfiction)
105 books — 21 voters
The Rose Code by Kate QuinnThe Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKayAlan Turing by Andrew HodgesThe Enigma Girls by Candace FlemingThe Bletchley Girls by Tessa Dunlop
Books set in Bletchley Park
42 books — 21 voters

Martin's Big Words by Doreen RappaportHenry's Freedom Box by Ellen LevineRosa by Nikki GiovanniTar Beach by Faith RinggoldSweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson
Picture Books for Black History Month
126 books — 21 voters
Ariadne by June Rachuy BrindelAriadne by Jennifer SaintBull God by Roberta GellisNo Need for Heroes by Brian KeaneyThe King Must Die by Mary Renault
Crete, Minoans - Fiction
53 books — 20 voters

The Boy Who Drew Birds by Jacqueline DaviesSwan by Laurel SnyderThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William KamkwambaMe... Jane by Patrick McDonnellThe Tree Lady by H. Joseph Hopkins
Best Children's (Picture) Book Biographies
33 books — 19 voters
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk CrossThe Countess by Rebecca JohnsShe-Wolves by Helen CastorQueen Isabella by Alison WeirThe Tigress of Forlì by Elizabeth Lev
Rejected Princesses
126 books — 17 voters

Spy... for Nobody! by Basel Saneebجاسوس من أجل لا أحد by Basel SaneebSpy... for Nobody! Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence by Basel SaneebThe Ghost by Jefferson MorleyA Short Course in the Secret War by Christopher Felix
CIA: Suggested Reading List
113 books — 16 voters
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Two Towers by J.R.R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienOrope - The White Snake by Guenevere LeeJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Fantasy in historical settings / Historical Fantasy
97 books — 16 voters

The Heart of Aleppo by Ammar HabibSpy... for Nobody! by Basel SaneebDestroying a Nation by Nikolaos van Damجاسوس من أجل لا أحد by Basel SaneebSpy... for Nobody! Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence by Basel Saneeb
Syria, war and peace
43 books — 16 voters
Green Island by Shawna Yang RyanFormosan Odyssey by John Grant RossHeijin by Ko-Lin ChinIs Taiwan Chinese? by Melissa J. BrownLost Colony by Tonio Andrade
Taiwan: History, Politics, and Culture
53 books — 15 voters

Pro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyThe Truth-Seeker’s Handbook by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky
Sci-Fi, History, Science
140 books — 15 voters
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. LewisMike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee BurtonGuarding His Obsession by Alexa RileyHolding His Forever by Alexa RileyA Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen
He Him or His in the title
374 books — 15 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia PlathA Writer's Diary by Virginia WoolfA Writer's Diary 1873-1881 by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6 by Anaïs Nin
Writers Journals and Diaries
75 books — 13 voters
Eating with Emperors by Jake SmithThe President's Table by Barry H. LandauIn the Kennedy Style by Letitia BaldrigeThe London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea by Helen SimpsonIt's the Cookie, Mr. President by Pamela Joy Mawyer
Let them eat cake!
31 books — 11 voters

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