When God Was a Woman by Merlin StoneDemons of the Flesh by Nikolas SchreckA-Ma Alchemy of Love by Nataša PantovićThe Chalice and the Blade by Riane EislerThe Living Goddesses by Marija Gimbutas
best books on goddess religion
45 books — 35 voters
Barbarian Days by William FinneganIn Search of Captain Zero by Allan C. WeisbeckerThe Wave by Susan CaseyKelly Slater by Kelly SlaterEddie Would Go by Stuart Holmes Coleman
Best Books on Surfing for Surfers
120 books — 130 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,401 books — 1,778 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
806 books — 1,151 voters

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirWomen's Work by Elizabeth Wayland BarberCleopatra by Stacy SchiffSex with Kings by Eleanor HermanShe-Wolves by Helen Castor
Women's History Written by Women
983 books — 198 voters

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakThe Snowy Day by Ezra Jack KeatsMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyThe Polar Express by Chris Van AllsburgThe Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
Caldecott Medal Winners
92 books — 459 voters

John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
2,272 books — 3,090 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Help by Kathryn StockettGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Best American Historical Fiction
473 books — 394 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
268 books — 47 voters


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