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The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe Civil War by Shelby FooteCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best American Civil War Books
998 books — 975 voters
Playing Ball by Vernon DavisWhere Men Win Glory by Jon KrakauerThe Last Folk Hero by Jeff PearlmanThrough My Eyes by Tim TebowBelichick by Ian O'Connor
Must Read Memoirs
1,220 books — 795 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselSchindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
World War II/Holocaust Fiction & Non-fiction
940 books — 727 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryKatherine by Anya SetonForever Amber by Kathleen WinsorGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Best Books About Mistresses
444 books — 726 voters

The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen CorasantiMornings in Jenin by Susan AbulhawaGaza Writes Back by Refaat AlareerThe Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan PappéI Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti
Books on the Israel Palestine Conflict (fiction and nonfiction)
452 books — 702 voters
The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownAngels & Demons by Dan BrownSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovBlack Fire by William Kely McClungThe Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz
Underground Knowledge (fiction and nonfiction)
1,326 books — 606 voters

Lone Survivor by Marcus LuttrellBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseGeneration Kill by Evan WrightThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Best Modern Day Military Accounts
434 books — 586 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George Orwell
Works of Pure Genius
709 books — 563 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Ultimate Human Secrets - The Hidden Power in our Mysterio... by Ramzi NajjarThe You Beyond You by Ramzi NajjarTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Horizon Expanding Books
914 books — 560 voters
The Great War of Hind by Vaibhav AnandLife of Pi by Yann MartelTe Amo... I LOVE YOU by Rohit SharmaThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Blue Monsoon by Damyanti Biswas
The India Reading List
644 books — 556 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirBad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Women & Gender Studies
1,459 books — 544 voters
The Histories by HerodotusA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanJohn Adams by David McCulloughThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
History as Literature
727 books — 535 voters

Miranda Bay by Susan TarrDominoes by C.B. BlahaSecrets of the Realm by Bev StoutSpellbound in His Arms by Angel SeferCircle of Five by Jan Raymond
Best New Kindle Authors
481 books — 508 voters
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxLife of Pi by Yann MartelAnne of Avonlea by L.M. MontgomeryAlias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Oh, Canada!
1,343 books — 500 voters

The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiMarch by John LewisMaus I by Art SpiegelmanMaus II by Art Spiegelman
History through graphic novels
621 books — 491 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouBeloved by Toni MorrisonInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Black History Month
551 books — 491 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
971 books — 488 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellU.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding FathersAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek
Best Books For Freedom Lovers
803 books — 488 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerHiroshima by John HerseyThe Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
World War Two - Firsthand Accounts (nonfiction)
658 books — 450 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassieMarie Antoinette by Antonia FraserThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
Female Biographies
1,248 books — 412 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankJourney to the West by Biao WangEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Life in a Foreign Country
792 books — 389 voters
Bossypants by Tina FeyStories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob LoweYes Please by Amy PoehlerConfessions of a Prairie Bitch by Alison ArngrimIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
Best Show Business Memoirs/Biographies
421 books — 380 voters

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline WinspearThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettHer Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen
Best Books to Make into a PBS Series
457 books — 376 voters
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinAnarchism and Other Essays by Emma GoldmanV for Vendetta by Alan MooreChomsky On Anarchism by Noam ChomskyThe Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
Anarchist books
468 books — 370 voters

Salt by Mark KurlanskyAt Home by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Histories of the Everyday
372 books — 335 voters
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBecause of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilloA Land Remembered by Patrick D. SmithThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsSwamplandia! by Karen Russell
Best Books Set in or About Florida
801 books — 326 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
Modern Science Nonfiction
421 books — 293 voters
مجمل تاريخ المغرب by عبد الله العرويتاريخ المغرب by المعهد الملكي للبحث في تاري...الاستقصا لأخبار دول المغرب الأقصى by أحمد بن خالد الناصريتطور الدولة في المغرب by محمد شقيرثلاثة وثلاثين قرن من تاريخ الأمازيغيين by Mohammed Chafik
Moroccan History Books - كتب تاريخ المغرب
135 books — 293 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
My Favourite Non Fiction Books
1,376 books — 257 voters
Watership Down by Richard AdamsAtonement by Ian McEwanBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFear of Flying by Erica JongNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Books You Might Have Missed
611 books — 245 voters

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