2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Marija (12 Lists)



Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del CastilloKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildLongsword by Dimitar GyopsalievOathbreaker by Dimitar Gyopsaliev
Crusaders, Conquistadores and Colonial Empires
261 books — 76 voters
Longsword by Dimitar GyopsalievOathbreaker by Dimitar GyopsalievThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoIronfire by David BallKnights of the Black and White by Jack Whyte
The crusades-historical fiction
63 books — 68 voters

A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius RyanThe Longest Day by Cornelius RyanBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseAn Army at Dawn by Rick AtkinsonCitizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose
Must Read World War II Military History - European Theater of Operations (nonfiction)
311 books — 115 voters
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir1453 by Roger Crowley
Best Medieval History Books
814 books — 325 voters

The Daughter of Time by Josephine TeyWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay PenmanI, Claudius by Robert GravesMarie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
Another look At History's Maligned Denizens
129 books — 44 voters
The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannBuddenbrooks by Thomas MannJoseph and His Brothers by Thomas MannDoctor Faustus by Thomas MannTonio Kröger by Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann and Family
109 books — 18 voters

Steve Jobs by Walter IsaacsonUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandEinstein by Walter IsaacsonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerJohn Adams by David McCullough
Best Biographies
1,661 books — 2,943 voters
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

The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. EvansThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerThe Third Reich in Power by Richard J. EvansThe Third Reich at War by Richard J. EvansInside Hitler's Bunker by Joachim Fest
Hitler, Nazism
78 books — 26 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,782 voters


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