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John Adams by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinWashington by Ron ChernowTruman by David McCulloughThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Best Presidential Biographies (nonfiction)
465 books — 518 voters
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir1453 by Roger Crowley
Best Medieval History Books
804 books — 315 voters

Mere Christianity by C.S. LewisAurora by G.M.J.Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisThe Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Thought Provoking Books Every Christian Should Read
465 books — 297 voters
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyMystic River by Dennis LehaneThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodJohnny Tremain by Esther Forbes1776 by David McCullough
Boston Books
330 books — 272 voters

I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingLean In by Sheryl SandbergThe Reason I Jump by Naoki HigashidaDrift by Rachel Maddow
Books Rec'd By The Daily Show
335 books — 272 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood1984 by George OrwellThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Post-Trump Big Questions Canon
518 books — 270 voters

Ghost Wars by Steve CollThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightDiplomacy by Henry KissingerLegacy of Ashes by Tim WeinerThe Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
American Foreign Policy
456 books — 268 voters
The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith Jr.Jesus the Christ by James E. TalmageThe Holy Bible by AnonymousStanding for Something by Gordon B. HinckleyThe Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball
Best LDS non-fiction
228 books — 264 voters

The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Aeneid by VirgilLord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell
About the Trojan War
272 books — 256 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Fictitious Africa
543 books — 254 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraCold Mountain by Charles FrazierTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
American Civil War Books (fiction and nonfiction)
444 books — 253 voters
Steve Jobs by Walter IsaacsonShoe Dog by Phil KnightElon Musk by Ashlee VanceThe Lean Startup by Eric RiesThe Everything Store by Brad Stone
Business Biographies and Memoirs
230 books — 253 voters

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth KolbertSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
The Natural World: Natural Science and Natural History for Adults
771 books — 248 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoOne Hot Italian Summer by Karina HalleThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Reading Italy
443 books — 234 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnAmerica (The Book) by Jon StewartMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling1776 by David McCullough
The Daily Show Reading Club
338 books — 232 voters
A Night to Remember by Walter LordTitanic by Don LynchThe Discovery of the Titanic by Robert D. BallardThe Night Lives On by Walter LordThe Watch That Ends the Night by Allan Wolf
Best Titanic Books
164 books — 224 voters

Clara Bow by David StennMy Autobiography by Charles ChaplinMe by Katharine HepburnFalling Waters by Gary D. HenryLulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
Best of Old Hollywood
468 books — 221 voters
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer102 Minutes by Jim DwyerThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightThe Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFedeThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
9/11 Related
247 books — 220 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
A Journey Through Literary America
151 books — 218 voters
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe White Queen by Philippa GregoryThe Constant Princess by Philippa GregoryThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryNefertiti by Michelle Moran
Royal Fiction
510 books — 217 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankA Writer's Diary by Virginia WoolfThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia PlathA Woman in Berlin by AnonymousIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Women's Journals and Diaries in History
469 books — 213 voters
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à KempisCatechism of the Catholic Church by Catholic ChurchThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisStory of a Soul by Thérèse of LisieuxIntroduction to the Devout Life by Francis de Sales
Books for Catholics
673 books — 210 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassDreams from My Father by Barack ObamaBlack Boy by Richard Wright
African American Lives
455 books — 202 voters
Night by Elie WieselThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneMaus I by Art Spiegelman
Essential Books on the Holocaust
197 books — 194 voters

The Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerThe Histories by HerodotusHistory of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Best Books on Ancient Greek History and Literature
356 books — 194 voters
West with the Night by Beryl MarkhamOut of Africa by Isak DinesenMy Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-NéelBorn Free by Joy AdamsonA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird
Trailblazing Women Adventurers
535 books — 179 voters

Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan BurroughThe Big Short by Michael LewisLiar's Poker by Michael LewisWhen Genius Failed by Roger LowensteinToo Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Business History
437 books — 176 voters
The Borgia Bride by Jeanne KalogridisBlood & Beauty by Sarah DunantThe Family by Mario PuzoPoison by Sara PooleMadonna of the Seven Hills by Jean Plaidy
Best Books about the Borgia Family
69 books — 169 voters

India After Gandhi by Ramachandra GuhaThe Discovery of India by Jawaharlal NehruIndia's Struggle for Independence by Bipan ChandraGandhi by Mahatma GandhiThe Wonder That Was India by A.L. Basham
Indian History
338 books — 167 voters
The House Divided by J.B. ManheimLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyDarwin's Black Box by Michael J. BeheDate Runner by Snapshot SystemsThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad Akreyi
Interesting Non-Fiction Books
456 books — 163 voters

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