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Moloka'i by Alan BrennertUnfamiliar Fishes by Sarah VowellHonolulu by Alan BrennertHawaii by James A. MichenerThe Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
All Things Hawaiian
342 books — 179 voters
The Wars of the Roses by Dan JonesIsabella by Kirstin DowneyEveryday Life in Medieval London by Toni MountNapoleon by Andrew RobertsBlood Royal by Eric Jager
History Books 2014
127 books — 139 voters

Escape to the Maroons by Mike WeedallTestament of Youth by Vera BrittainHet Achterhuis by Anne FrankVirginia Woolf by Hermione LeeCall the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
Herstory
591 books — 127 voters
Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn SolomonAll-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney TaylorAre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeYou'll Miss Me When I'm Gone by Rachel Lynn SolomonAll-of-a-Kind Family Downtown by Sydney Taylor
Jewish Americans in Children's Literature
455 books — 113 voters

Wild Swans by Jung ChangThe Color of Jadeite by Eric D. GoodmanMonkey by Wu Cheng'enThree Kingdoms by Luo GuanzhongDream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
Best books to read about China
172 books — 105 voters
Jesus, Interrupted by Bart D. EhrmanMisquoting Jesus by Bart D. EhrmanZealot by Reza AslanThe Challenge of Jesus by N.T. WrightJesus and the Eyewitnesses by Richard Bauckham
Best Historical Jesus Books
123 books — 92 voters

The Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Sleepwalkers by Christopher ClarkThe War That Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillanTo End All Wars by Adam HochschildCatastrophe 1914 by Max Hastings
New & Upcoming Books about the First World War
102 books — 86 voters
My Fight / Your Fight by Ronda RouseyThe Frailty Myth by Colette DowlingBloomer Girls by Debra A. ShattuckDust Bowl Girls by Lydia ReederHer Own Hero by Wendy L. Rouse
Non-Fiction About Women in Sports
334 books — 81 voters

Hunger by Roxane GayDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSouth and West by Joan DidionThe Radium Girls by Kate MooreThe Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
244 books — 70 voters
The Patient by Steena HolmesDear George, Dear Mary by Mary CalviDear Wife by Kimberly BelleMeet Me in Monaco by Hazel GaynorThe Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor
Books I plan to read in 2019
220 books — 68 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Song of the Dodo by David QuammenThe Flight of the Iguana by David QuammenThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Best of Natural History
360 books — 67 voters
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinJohn Adams by David McCulloughTruman by David McCulloughWashington by Ron ChernowTheodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Positively Presidential (nonfiction)
366 books — 67 voters

How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur HermanMary Queen of Scots by Antonia FraserOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Celts by Peter Berresford EllisGreyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Atkinson
Scottish History
286 books — 65 voters
1491 by Charles C. Mann1493 by Charles C. MannThe Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrieCollapse by Jared DiamondThe Conquest of the Incas by John Hemming
Pre-Columbian & Early Post-Columbian History of the Americas
159 books — 59 voters

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik11/22/63 by Stephen KingThe Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadDread Nation by Justina IrelandThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Task 2 #ReadHarder 2019
111 books — 58 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Story of My Life by Helen KellerOut of Africa by Isak DinesenMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Unusual women in history
335 books — 54 voters

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. MassieCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassieThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserThe Children of Henry VIII by Alison WeirLove and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser
Royal Biographies
316 books — 52 voters
Half Lion by Vinay SitapatiIndia After Gandhi by Ramachandra GuhaOur Moon Has Blood Clots by Rahul PanditaHimalayan Blunder by J.P. DalviBrainwashed Republic by Neeraj Atri
Indian History (including post 1947 India)
307 books — 52 voters

The Lost Crown by Sarah MillerAnastasia by Carolyn MeyerThe Diary of Olga Romanov by Helen AzarThe Romanov Sisters by Helen RappaportAnastasia's Album by Hugh Brewster
Best Books of the Romanov Sisters
20 books — 51 voters
Pirates! by Celia ReesUnder the Jolly Roger by L.A. MeyerMy Bonny Light Horseman by L.A. MeyerBoston Jacky by L.A. MeyerBloody Jack by L.A. Meyer
YA & Middle Grade Pirates
109 books — 50 voters

God's Playground by Norman DaviesWhite Eagle, Red Star by Norman DaviesGod's Playground by Norman DaviesThe Polish Way by Adam ZamoyskiForgotten Holocaust by Richard C. Lukas
Best of Polish History
205 books — 48 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Two Week Traveller by Matthew LightfootThe Princess Guide to Rome by Belinda DarceyGlam Italia! How to Travel Italy by Corinna Cooke
travel essentials
57 books — 47 voters

The Wars of the Roses by Alison WeirAgincourt by Juliet BarkerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesShe-Wolves by Helen CastorThe Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
Best Non Fiction About The Plantagenets AD 1272-1485
98 books — 47 voters
Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt StewartTomboy Bride by Harriet Fish BackusWe Pointed Them North by E.C. "Teddy Blue" AbbottDoc Susie by Virginia CornellA Bride Goes West by Nannie T. Alderson
The Old West in First Person
266 books — 46 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellAnxiety by Danny Winter1984 by George OrwellDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa Layne
No Witches, Wizards, Werewolves, Vampires, Dragons, Demons
258 books — 45 voters
The Immigrant by Nery McMahonThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyOur Matrix Decoded by Ramzi NajjarThe Art of Pushing Forward by Ramzi Najjar
That's So True
26 books — 45 voters

Forever Amber by Kathleen WinsorRestoration by Rose TremainThe Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel PepysFrenchman's Creek by Daphne du MaurierYear of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Books Set in Restoration England
85 books — 42 voters
Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan BandyopadhyayEast-West by Sunil GangopadhyaySrikanta by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyayব্যোমকেশ সমগ্র by Sharadindu BandyopadhyayShonku Samagra by Satyajit Ray
Top 100 Bengali Books (Translated in other language).
67 books — 42 voters

The Immigrant by Nery McMahonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiMy Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria HoustonAdventure, romance and war in the Far East by Iris Hay-Edie
True Stories of Great Women
175 books — 41 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain HashmiDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Fireside Books
67 books — 33 voters

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