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Poor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
224 books — 206 voters
Escape to the Maroons by Mike WeedallLife in a Medieval City by Frances GiesAt Home by Bill BrysonA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanA History of Private Life by Philippe Ariès
Social History Books - All About People & Society
767 books — 191 voters

Night by Elie WieselThe Hiding Place by Corrie ten BoomThe Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn BeerHiroshima by John HerseyAnne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies
World War II Memoirs
354 books — 174 voters
1984 by George OrwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenAnimal Farm by George Orwell
The Best Social Studies Library List
233 books — 172 voters

The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantBrunelleschi's Dome by Ross KingThe House of Medici by Christopher HibbertThe Tigress of Forlì by Elizabeth Lev
The Italian Renaissance
281 books — 170 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseBlood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
The American Frontier
684 books — 153 voters

The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererLab Girl by Hope JahrenThe Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart
Nonfiction Books about Plants
415 books — 140 voters
The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserThe Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de PizanThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison WeirThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France
From Adam's Rib? -- Women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
275 books — 135 voters

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James BrownRome 1960 by David MaranissBoycott by Tom CaraccioliTriumph by Jeremy SchaapUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Olympic Games
266 books — 126 voters
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Big Sea by Langston HughesDust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale HurstonI Wonder as I Wander by Langston HughesThe Life of Langston Hughes by Arnold Rampersad
Author Biographies and Memoirs
425 books — 124 voters

Impossible Saints by Clarissa HarwoodA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftA Time For Courage by Kathryn LaskyFalling Angels by Tracy ChevalierThe Woman's Hour by Elaine F. Weiss
Women's Suffrage
414 books — 123 voters
The Humans by Matt HaigThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenDivergent by Veronica RothTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Novels for the Wanderer
155 books — 122 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownBlack Elk Speaks by John G. NeihardtEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneLakota Woman by Mary Crow DogWhere White Men Fear to Tread by Russell Means
Native American Biography (nonfiction)
429 books — 121 voters
I've Got Some Lovin' to Do by Julia Park TraceyThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsDetour from Normal by Ken DicksonThis Childhood of Mine by Laura Meer BarkleyRunning with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Biographies of Ordinary People
144 books — 119 voters

مصرائيل by أحمد جمال الدين رمضانمزرعة الحيوانات by George Orwellقصر الكلام by جلال عامردور الصدفة والغباء في تغيير مجرى التاريخ by Erik Durschmiedالكرنك by Naguib Mahfouz
For a Better Egypt
179 books — 115 voters
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinLincoln by David Herbert DonaldManhunt by James L. SwansonLincoln by Gore VidalAbraham Lincoln by Seth Grahame-Smith
Best Books About Abraham Lincoln
108 books — 114 voters

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam HigginbothamSay Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeThe Five by Hallie RubenholdHow to Hide an Empire by Daniel ImmerwahrCode Name by Larry Loftis
History Published in Year: 2019
392 books — 114 voters
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichEvicted by Matthew DesmondJourney to the West by Biao WangMaid by Stephanie LandThe Working Poor by David K. Shipler
Books on Poverty and Inequality
215 books — 113 voters

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan PoeRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Haycraft-Queen Definitive Library of Crime, Detective and Mystery Fiction
186 books — 112 voters
Homage to Catalonia by George OrwellFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Battle for Spain by Antony BeevorThe Assassin's Mark by David EbsworthWinter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom
The Spanish Civil War (fiction and nonfiction)
163 books — 112 voters

القرآن الكريم by AnonymousDestiny Disrupted by Tamim AnsaryNo god but God by Reza AslanMuhammad, the World-Changer by Mohamad JebaraAfter the Prophet by Lesley Hazleton
Muslim History (nonfiction)
232 books — 110 voters
Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonFounding Brothers by Joseph J. EllisAn Army at Dawn by Rick AtkinsonWhat Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker HoweNo Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Pulitzer Winners: History
106 books — 109 voters

Growing Future Operators by Rick MendesAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyLost Boy by Jacob Blosser
Books That Require More Of You
100 books — 109 voters
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Jungle Books by Rudyard KiplingGorillas in the Mist by Dian FosseyOut of Africa by Isak DinesenHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Rainforests and Jungles of the World
383 books — 107 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Help by Kathryn StockettTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Domestic Service - Help Wanted!
227 books — 106 voters
India After Gandhi by Ramachandra GuhaThe Discovery of India by Jawaharlal NehruThe Argumentative Indian by Amartya SenIndia Unbound by Gurcharan DasIndia by John Keay
India on My Mind
397 books — 104 voters

Number the Stars by Lois LowryThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakBetween Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Best Young Adult Holocaust/WWII Books
86 books — 104 voters
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie FordSnow Falling on Cedars by David GutersonFarewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki HoustonThey Called Us Enemy by George TakeiNo-No Boy by John Okada
Japanese American Internment
134 books — 101 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieTrain to Pakistan by Khushwant SinghCracking India by Bapsi Sidhwaतमस by Bhisham SahniWhat the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Books about the Indian Subcontinental Partition (fiction and nonfiction)
89 books — 97 voters
This Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul OlaBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySiddhartha by Hermann HesseSteppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Best Books to Wake Us Out of Our Collective Slumber
250 books — 73 voters

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