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On Writing by Stephen KingBird by Bird by Anne LamottThe Artist's Way by Julia CameronLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeWriting Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Best Books on Creative Life
515 books — 627 voters
The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónOutlander by Diana GabaldonMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Historical Fiction With a Dash of Magic
473 books — 754 voters

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffJane Austen's Letters by Jane AustenLetters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt StewartThe Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Pierre AbélardWest from Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Women's Correspondence - Letters in History
213 books — 70 voters
The Luck of the Weissensteiners by Christoph FischerSebastian by Christoph FischerRoots by Alex HaleyA Haunting at Hawthorn by Gail Grant ParkThese Is My Words by Nancy E. Turner
Fiction based on the Author's Ancestors
125 books — 153 voters

Into the Wilderness by Sara DonatiSurrender by Pamela ClareDefiant by Pamela ClareThe Turncoat by Donna ThorlandUntamed by Pamela Clare
Colonial, Revolutionary, Early American Romance
208 books — 229 voters
Southern Harm by Travis CaseyThe Patron Saint of Liars by Ann PatchettHunter's Horn by Harriette Simpson ArnowThe Kentuckians by Janice Holt GilesHannah Fowler by Janice Holt Giles
Kentucky Fiction
50 books — 23 voters

I Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Princess Diaries by Meg CabotThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
Best Diary Novels
173 books — 270 voters
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferDracula by Bram StokerThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Epistolary Fiction
875 books — 858 voters

Johnny Tremain by Esther ForbesChains by Laurie Halse AndersonMy Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln CollierThe Turncoat by Donna ThorlandI, Eliza Hamilton by Susan Holloway Scott
American Revolutionary War Fiction
167 books — 292 voters
Fortune's Favorites by Colleen McCulloughEleanor the Queen by Norah LoftsAngélique by Anne GolonA Wayside Tavern by Norah LoftsThe First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
Is there a good historical novel hiding behind that cheesy cover?
93 books — 27 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
269 books — 48 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseBlood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
The American Frontier
696 books — 171 voters


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