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The Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanPostwar by Tony JudtThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
European History
786 books — 159 voters
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison WeirThe Children of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserHenry VIII by Alison Weir
Best Non-Fiction Books about Tudor England
218 books — 68 voters

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderThese Is My Words by Nancy E. TurnerMrs. Mike by Benedict FreedmanChristy by Catherine MarshallMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
Rural American Women's History (fiction and nonfiction)
174 books — 68 voters
Medicus by Ruth DownieThe Silver Pigs by Lindsey DavisThe Agricola and The Germania by Publius Cornelius TacitusClaudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert GravesHadrian's Wall by William Dietrich
Roman Britain
123 books — 60 voters

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBuck by M.K. AsanteThe Wounded World by Chad L. WilliamsThe Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
Black biography
235 books — 59 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Hiding Place by Corrie ten BoomRed Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang
What Dystopian Readers Should Know
126 books — 55 voters

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian FadermanBoots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky KennedySurpassing the Love of Men by Lillian FadermanThe Disappearing L by Bonnie J. MorrisCharity and Sylvia by Rachel Hope Cleves
Lesbian Herstory
150 books — 49 voters
Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy HollingThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William KamkwambaTree in the Trail by Holling Clancy HollingAn American Plague by Jim MurphyCathedral by David Macaulay
Microhistories For Juveniles – Social Histories of Things, Events and People
72 books — 36 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Complete Poems by Percy Bysshe ShelleyA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftThe Age of Wonder by Richard HolmesThe Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
The Truth Behind the Monster
42 books — 34 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Proud Tower by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
A Heady Brew - Weimar Germany (1918-1933)
125 books — 33 voters

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon NorthupIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann JacobsBeloved by Toni MorrisonUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
African Slave Trade
168 books — 31 voters
Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe Civil War, Vol. 1 by Shelby FooteTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Killer Angels by Michael Shaara1861 by Adam Goodheart
Civil War Bookshelf
194 books — 31 voters

100 Dresses by Harold KodaHigh Style by Jan ReederQueen of Fashion by Caroline WeberCostume in Detail by Nancy BradfieldThe History of Underclothes by C. Willett Cunnington
The Meaning of Clothing
108 books — 29 voters
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert KingA Land Remembered by Patrick D. SmithLast Train to Paradise by Les StandifordThe Swamp by Michael GrunwaldTotch by Loren G. "Totch" Brown
Florida History
193 books — 28 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
Rising Up and Rising Down
81 books — 27 voters
The Cloisters by Peter BarnetEarly Medieval Architecture by Roger StalleyCathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel by Frances GiesUniverse of Stone by Philip BallMedieval Architecture by Nicola Coldstream
Medieval Architecture (nonfiction)
89 books — 19 voters

Area 51 by Annie JacobsenThe Orphan Conspiracies by James MorcanBad Love Tigers by Kevin L. ScheweArea 51 by Robert DohertyAntigravity Propulsion by James Morcan
Area 51 Books
28 books — 15 voters
AfterTastes and Tales from Russia by Jake DanishevskyMy Country 'Tis of Thee by Keith EllisonThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict by Mitchell G. BardA HISTORY OF RUSSIA, SECOND EDITION by Jesse Dunsmore Clarkson
My Non-fiction Summer Reading List
14 books — 14 voters

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard BailynMany Thousands Gone by Ira BerlinA Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher UlrichThe Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas J. SugrueW.E.B. Du Bois by David Levering Lewis
The Bancroft Prize
68 books — 14 voters
The League of Regrettable Superheroes by Jon MorrisSupergods by Grant MorrisonThe Law of Superheroes by James DailySuperheroes and Philosophy by Tom MorrisSuper Heroes by Richard Reynolds
Superhero Culture: What Superheros Tell Us About Ourselves
33 books — 13 voters

Thanks to Life by Ericka Kim VerbaMestiza by Patricia Cerda PincheiraInés of My Soul by Isabel AllendeSalvador Allende Reader by Salvador AllendeMemoirs by Pablo Neruda
Chilean History. Historia de Chile
36 books — 12 voters
Enemy Brothers by Constance SaveryThe Reb and the Redcoats by Constance SaveryThat Girl of Pierre's by Robert DavisMadeleine Takes Command by Ethel C. BrillThe Winged Watchman by Hilda van Stockum
Bethlehem Books
20 books — 11 voters

Voyage of the Beagle by Charles DarwinIn Patagonia by Bruce ChatwinThe Far Side of the World by Patrick O'BrianUp into the Singing Mountain by Richard LlewellynThe Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux
Patagonia
25 books — 9 voters
Slavery and Empire in Central Asia by Jeff EdenAnglo-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia 1810-1895 by Gerald MorganThe World War Deception by Hamad SubaniDoes it Yurt? Travels in Central Asia Or How I Came to Love t... by Stephen M. BlandThe Great Game by Peter Hopkirk
The Great Game and Central Asia
10 books — 9 voters

The First and Last King of Haiti by Marlene L. DautAid State by Jake JohnstonAid State by Jake JohnstonState Failure, Underdevelopment, and Foreign Intervention in ... by Jean-Germain GrosRocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun by Vilmond Joegodson Deralcine...
Best Non-Fiction Books On Haiti
6 books — 8 voters
Dead Cities by Mike DavisThe Population Explosion by Paul R. EhrlichFor the Common Good by Herman E. DalyThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganControl Switch On by Ira Teller
Expanding your mind
27 books — 7 voters

Alcatraz Island by Milton Daniel BeacherAl Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer CholdenkoEscape from Alcatraz by J. Campbell BruceLast Guard Out by Jim AlbrightThe Children of Alcatraz by Claire Rudolf Murphy
Alcatraz
16 books — 7 voters
Last Train to Paradise by Les StandifordThe Southern Railway system by William WebbSouthern Railway by Tom MurrayBuilding a Great Railroad by Glenn HoffmannTen Thousand Miles by Freight Train by Carrot Quinn
Southern Railroads
43 books — 6 voters

The Chiang Mai Chronicle by David K. WyattThe Acid Diary by Daniel S. William FletcherInconvenient Memories by Anna Wang YuanNight Owl by Anna Mae Yu LamentilloThe Nan Chronicle by David K. Wyatt
The Great Books of Southeast Asia
8 books — 4 voters
Way of Life Encyclopedia of the Bible & Christianity by David W. CloudA History of the Baptists by John T. ChristianBalthasar Hübmaier, the Leader of the Anabaptists by Henry C. VedderAmerica In Crimson Red by James R. BellerA Charted History of the Bible by James C. Kahler
Baptist History
8 books — 3 voters

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