Animal Farm by George OrwellStalin by Simon Sebag MontefioreThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Stalinist Russia
154 books — 50 voters
A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Cold War (nonfiction)
364 books — 106 voters

Stalingrad by Antony BeevorHitler Moves East 1941–1943 by Paul CarellBarbarossa by Alan ClarkEnemy at the Gates by William CraigThe Road to Stalingrad by John Erickson
WWII East Front History
45 books — 23 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirBad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Women & Gender Studies
1,463 books — 547 voters
The Quiet American by Graham GreeneThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienFirst They Killed My Father by Loung UngMatterhorn by Karl MarlantesDispatches by Michael Herr
Cambodia and Vietnam
214 books — 161 voters