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Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Tudors by G.J. Meyer
Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
182 books — 116 voters
Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisLondon by Peter AckroydThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonSalonica, City of Ghosts by Mark MazowerLondon by Edward Rutherfurd
Histories of Cities
260 books — 105 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1491 by Charles C. Mann1776 by David McCulloughA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Understanding History
260 books — 105 voters
Over the Edge of the World by Laurence BergreenThe Lost City of Z by David GrannUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseThe Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard CarterThe White Nile by Alan Moorehead
The Great Explorers
245 books — 92 voters

The Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerThe Art of War by Sun TzuGhost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
Ike Skelton's Military History reading list (nonfiction)
132 books — 76 voters
گم شده ای در مه by سید مرتضی مصطفویCapital by Karl MarxThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirPhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe Republic by Plato
Seminal Works (fiction and nonfiction)
96 books — 73 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeFifth Business by Robertson DaviesLives of Girls and Women by Alice MunroThe Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
Great Canadian Books of the [20th] Century I (fiction and nonfiction)
168 books — 63 voters
Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Big Short by Michael LewisNothing to Envy by Barbara DemickThe Tiger by John VaillantLast Call by Daniel Okrent
Christian Science Monitor's Best Nonfiction Books of 2010
33 books — 62 voters

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard BailynThe Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. WoodThe Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. WoodAmerican Scripture by Pauline MaierAmerican Colonies by Alan Taylor
Historiography of the American Revolution, 1607-1800 (nonfiction)
127 books — 61 voters
When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay PenmanTime and Chance by Sharon Kay PenmanDevil's Brood by Sharon Kay PenmanCaptive Queen by Alison WeirThe Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick
Best historical-fiction about Eleanor of Aquitaine
26 books — 58 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Paper Bag Princess by Robert MunschThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Hockey Sweater by Roch CarrierThe Best of Robert Service by Robert W. Service
Great Canadian Books of the [20th] Century II (fiction and nonfiction)
106 books — 43 voters
With the Old Breed by Eugene B. SledgeThe Art of War by Sun TzuGoodbye to All That by Robert GravesAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie
Best History Books on the topic of "WAR"
87 books — 42 voters

Truman by David McCulloughThe Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. WhiteThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Best and the Brightest by David HalberstamMaster of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
The Washington Post's Best Political Nonfiction 2010
41 books — 36 voters
Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandJust Kids by Patti SmithWashington by Ron ChernowThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonProfiles in Leadership by Walter Isaacson
Los Angeles Times' 2010 Nonfiction Book Picks
48 books — 33 voters

1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers by Gerd Schultze-RhonhofGerman Philosophy 1760-1860 by Terry P. PinkardThe Germanic Hero by Brian MurdochThe Vanished Kingdom by James Charles RoyThe Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark
Wilson's Germanic History List
45 books — 30 voters
Uppity Women of Medieval Times by Vicki LeónA Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans by Michael FarquharA Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael FarquharUppity Women of the Renaissance by Vicki LeónDoomed Queens by Kris Waldherr
Biographical Sketches
158 books — 25 voters

Black Klansman by Ron StallworthThe Second Coming of the KKK by Linda GordonMorning Fuel by Rebecca Faye Smith GalliKlansville, U.S.A. by David CunninghamSuperman Versus The Ku Klux Klan by Rick Bowers
Books about the KKK (fiction and nonfiction)
151 books — 25 voters
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithGeneral Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard KeynesAs Gods Among Men by Guido AlfaniThe Social Contract, a Discourse on the Origin of Inequality,... by Jean-Jacques RousseauDas Kapital by Karl Marx
Economic History
74 books — 25 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Ascent of Money by Niall FergusonEmpires of the Sea by Roger CrowleyA People's History of the World by Chris HarmanThe Bitter Road to Freedom by William I. Hitchcock
The Independent's "The Ten Best History Books"
10 books — 24 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonWhen Will There Be Good News? by Kate AtkinsonA Dana Hargrove Double by V.S. KemanisIn Pale Battalions by Robert GoddardThe Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Steven King's Favorites of 2008
12 books — 21 voters

Johnny Tremain by Esther ForbesTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Middle Grades American History Books
98 books — 12 voters
Nowhere Else I Want to Be by Carol D. MarshJohn Lennon by Philip NormanThe Post-American World by Fareed ZakariaOvertreated by Shannon BrownleeIn Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Christian Science Monitor's Best Nonfiction Books of 2008
23 books — 12 voters

Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. WashingtonW.E.B. Du Bois by David Levering LewisSojourner Truth by Nell Irvin PainterAfricana by Kwame Anthony AppiahThurgood Marshall by Juan Williams
Black Caucus of the ALA Awards - Non-fiction
61 books — 12 voters
A. Lincoln by Ronald C. White Jr.The Lost City of Z by David GrannTears in the Darkness by Michael NormanThe Sisters of Sinai by Janet Martin SoskiceThe Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
Christian Science Monitor's Best Nonfiction Books of 2009
24 books — 11 voters

Nowhere Else I Want to Be by Carol D. MarshTrue Compass by Edward M. KennedyLast Lion by Peter S. CanellosFlannery by Brad GoochFollowing the Water by David M. Carroll
The Boston Globe's Best Nonfiction 2009
9 books — 9 voters
House of Rain by Craig ChildsAncient Peoples of the American Southwest by Stephen PlogIn Search of the Old Ones by David RobertsFinders Keepers by Craig ChildsSandstone Spine by David Roberts
Utah Archaeology Books
91 books — 9 voters

The Death of Spring by Silvio J. Caputo Jr.Two Beautiful Butterflies by Gloria MoodyThe Mineral Palace by Heidi JulavitsThose A-ha Moments by Lynnette GoldyThe Adventures of Periwinkle the Crab by L. G. Godfrey
Books By or Regarding Puebloans
8 books — 3 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Grace of Silence by Michele NorrisBrainwashed by Tom BurrellExtraordinary, Ordinary People by Condoleezza RiceThe Next Big Story by Soledad O'Brien
The Los Angeles Sentinel's 10 Best Black Nonfiction Books of 2010
10 books — 3 voters

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