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Red Notice by Bill BrowderThe Man Without a Face by Masha GessenThe Future Is History by Masha GessenOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynNothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev
Books about Russia
139 books — 74 voters
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. DavisThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderJust Mercy by Bryan StevensonPushout by Monique W. MorrisResistance Behind Bars by Victoria Law
Prison History & Theory
138 books — 57 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankMaybe You Will Survive by Aron GoldfarbInnocence Lost by Philip Sherman MygattNight by Elie WieselSchindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
WWII and Holocaust Books
106 books — 54 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherAnimal Farm / 1984 by George OrwellAngels & Demons by Dan BrownZero Alternative by Luca Pesaro
Books that cannot be ignored
58 books — 49 voters

Number the Stars by Lois LowryThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakMaybe You Will Survive by Aron GoldfarbThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Holocaust literature, Remembering the Holocaust
49 books — 40 voters
America's Great Depression by Murray N. RothbardAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard BailynThe Real Lincoln by Thomas J. DiLorenzoThe March Of Folly by Barbara W. Tuchman
Libertarian Guide to American History (fiction and nonfiction)
77 books — 38 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Princes in the Tower by Alison WeirThe Lady in the Tower by Alison Weir
The Tower of London
103 books — 34 voters
Poor Little Rich Girl by C. David HeymannThe Beautiful Fall by Alicia DrakeD.V. by Diana VreelandThe Unexpurgated Beaton by Hugo VickersWar Paint by Lindy Woodhead
Style and Decadence
142 books — 24 voters

Hitler by Ian KershawHitler by Joachim FestAdolf Hitler by John TolandHitler by D. Harlan WilsonHitler by Ian Kershaw
Best Hitler Biographies
24 books — 23 voters
I Ate a Cicada Today by Jeff CrossanGershwin's Rhapsody in Blue by Anna Harwell CelenzaAida by Leontyne PriceWho Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? by Yona Zeldis McDonoughBen's Trumpet by Rachel Isadora
Best Music Appreciation Books for Children
70 books — 19 voters

Metamorphoses by OvidThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Aeneid by VirgilThe Oresteia by AeschylusThe Golden Ass by Apuleius
Ancient Texts
41 books — 19 voters
Monster, She Wrote by Lisa KrögerPaperbacks from Hell by Grady HendrixDanse Macabre by Stephen KingMaps and Legends by Michael ChabonDreadful Pleasures by James B. Twitchell
Best Books About Genre Fiction
58 books — 13 voters

Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy by Jacqueline Kennedy OnassisJohn F. Kennedy by Robert DallekThe Hidden History of the JFK Assassination by Lamar WaldronOn The Trail of Delusion by Fred LitwinFive Days in November by Clint Hill
JFK 50th Anniversary
26 books — 13 voters
The Pillow Book by Sei ShōnagonThe Conference of the Birds by Attar of NishapurThe Arabian Nights by AnonymousDream of the Red Chamber by Cao XueqinFive Women Who Loved Love by Saikaku Ihara
Medieval Non-Western Books
42 books — 11 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellNorth and South by John JakesThe House Girl by Tara ConklinThe Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddSurrender the Wind by Elizabeth St. Michel
Antebellum South
95 books — 10 voters
The Weaker Vessel by Antonia FraserEurope at Home by Raffaella SartiRestoration London by Liza PicardThe Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel PepysReligion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas
Life in the 17th Century
13 books — 9 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Wilderness Reader by Frank BergonMy First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
Future Primitive Further Reading
103 books — 8 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Jungle by Upton SinclairMy Ántonia by Willa CatherO Pioneers! by Willa CatherTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Books that Shaped Work in America
97 books — 7 voters

Jamestown by Joyce CrawfordOregon Shipwrecks by Don MarshallPortland by Heather Arndt AndersonGuide to Shipwreck Sites Along the Oregon Coast by Victor WestLifting Oregon Out of the Mud by Joe R. Blakely
Oregon History (nonfiction)
16 books — 6 voters
The Tree That Reached the Sky by Elek BenedekOnce Upon a Time by Hungarian folkThe Glass Man and the Golden Bird by Ruth Manning-SandersHungarian Heroes and Legends by Joseph DomjanThe Good-Hearted Youngest Brother by Emöke de Papp Severo
Hungarian Folktales and Legends
18 books — 6 voters

Moscow, 1937 by Karl SchlögelBlack on Red by Robert RobinsonStalin by Simon Sebag MontefioreDear America by Thomas SgovioSouth to Samarkand by Ethel Mannin
Russia 1937
12 books — 5 voters
The Holy Bible by AnonymousThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheAlice in Wonderland by Jane Carruth
Misinterpreted Books Through History
3 books — 4 voters

The Aeneid by VirgilPentateuch by AnonymousAMERICA IS THE TRUE OLD WORLD by Amunhotep Chavis El BeyThe Nature of the Gods by Marcus Tullius CiceroCaesar's Commentaries by Gaius Julius Caesar
Influential Books of the Ancient Era
20 books — 3 voters
Phrenology by Orson Squire FowlerAlchemy and Alchemists by Charles John Samuel ThompsonOpticks by Isaac NewtonLectures on Theoretical Physics by Hendrik Antoon LorentzAether and Matter by Joseph Larmor
Dead Sciences
5 books — 2 voters

The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven PinkerSanctifying Misandry by Katherine K. Young
Radical Son: A Journey Though Our Times
2 books — 1 voter
Shipwrecks of Coos County by H.S. ContinoPaw Prints by H.S. ContinoCrossroads by H.S. ContinoShorts by H.S. Contino
Books by author H. S. Contino
4 books — 1 voter

Geschichte Sachsens im Mittelalter by Karlheinz BlaschkeGeschichte der Sachsen vom germanischen Stamm bis zum Freistaat by gustav-niemetz
Saxony in history and fiction
2 books — 1 voter
Eben Holden by Irving BachellerAdirondack Tragedy by Joseph W. BrownellAxton Landing by Tony HoltzmanAt the Mercy of the Mountains by Peter Bronski
History of North Country
4 books — 1 voter

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