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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksGoodbye to All That by Robert Graves
The Great War
770 books — 601 voters
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,214 books — 2,620 voters

A Passage to India by E.M. ForsterKim by Rudyard KiplingThe Far Pavilions by M.M. KayeThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire (fiction)
314 books — 200 voters
Kon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlSailing Alone around the World by Joshua SlocumEndurance by Alfred LansingThe Endurance by Caroline AlexanderMaiden Voyage by Tania Aebi
Sailing Cruising
281 books — 199 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerKon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlSeven Years in Tibet by Heinrich HarrerThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerTouching the Void by Joe Simpson
Extreme Classics: National Geographic's 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time
101 books — 264 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandEndurance by Alfred LansingInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Best True Survival Stories
423 books — 549 voters

Beowulf by UnknownThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain PoetThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriLe Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Best Medieval Literature
165 books — 134 voters
Nature Calls Outside My Window, A Collection of Poems and Sto... by Suzanne CottrellThe Love of a Dog by Jo ProutyA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Some Great Books on Nature
261 books — 222 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Latin American Fiction
893 books — 1,200 voters
Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerMoon Called by Patricia BriggsAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerCinder by Marissa Meyer
Non-Caucasian Protagonists in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Paranormal Romance
2,586 books — 2,802 voters


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