A Decade of Hit Books

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John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best History Books
4,101 books — 4,693 voters
Sofia Petrovna by Lydia ChukovskayaMoscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt ErofeevThe Foundation Pit by Andrei PlatonovThe Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir VoinovichAshes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski
Northwestern University Press: European Classics
73 books — 19 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Tunnel by William H. GassArcadia by Tom StoppardExercises in Style by Raymond QueneauThe Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled b... by Irmtraud Morgner
Complete Review's A+ & A Rated Books
109 books — 14 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynRoadside Picnic by Arkady StrugatskyLife and Fate by Vasily GrossmanCancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Post WWII Soviet Lit
57 books — 74 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoThe Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Tunnel by Ernesto SabatoThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Latin American Literature - Late 19th Century to Present Day
168 books — 43 voters
The Odyssey by Homer1984 by George OrwellHamlet by William ShakespeareCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The 100 Most Influential Works
138 books — 84 voters

The Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose BierceBartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Best Short Stories of All Time
616 books — 412 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Great Short Short Books
594 books — 540 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best War Novels
1,718 books — 1,468 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
815 books — 1,159 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
876 books — 1,269 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldWinnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
758 books — 1,135 voters


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