Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1008948-tim">Tim</a> (41 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Tim (41 Lists)

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders

Dystopian Novels That May Soon Become Reality in Trump's America

196 books — 98 voters

Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman

Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro

The Best American Historical Biographies of All Time

246 books — 132 voters

Freedom from Fear by David M. Kennedy

Gotham by Edwin G. Burrows

Polio by David M. Oshinsky

An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson

What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe

Pulitzer Winners: History

107 books — 112 voters

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

356 books — 305 voters

In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul

Booker Prize Winners

74 books — 2,016 voters

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Centaur by John Updike

James Joyce by Richard Ellmann

American Sphinx by Joseph J. Ellis

National Book Award Winners

241 books — 205 voters

Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro

The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro

Best Presidential Biographies (nonfiction)

471 books — 529 voters

The Prize by Daniel Yergin

101 books — 29 voters

Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood

John Marshall by Jean Edward Smith

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings by Thomas Paine

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Best Books About The American Revolution

242 books — 246 voters

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers

Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Best Time Travel Fiction

2,173 books — 5,457 voters

Bossism in Cincinnati by Henry Collier Wright

Machine Made by Terry Golway

Boss Rule in South Texas by Evan Anders

Capital, Coercion, and Crime by John T. Sidel

Boss Tweed by Kenneth D. Ackerman

Bossism and political machines

10 books — 3 voters

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

Best Middle East Nonfiction

536 books — 377 voters

The Tangled Web by Michal Zalewski

The Code Book by Simon Singh

Crypto by Steven Levy

The Codebreakers by David Kahn

Information Security

81 books — 80 voters

Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson

Reconstruction by Eric Foner

American Caesar by William Manchester

Best American History Books

2,251 books — 2,994 voters

The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

Seizing The Enigma by David Kahn

You Can't Win by Jack Black

Against the Gods by Peter L. Bernstein

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman

Non-Computer books for Computer Security Gurus

18 books — 5 voters

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

History of Science

487 books — 293 voters

Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

The Assassins’ Gate by George Packer

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Pulitzer Prize General Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

139 books — 36 voters

Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton

Best American Civil War Books

1,022 books — 1,032 voters

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies

2,216 books — 12,251 voters

The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans

An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson

The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer

Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston S. Churchill

A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous

World War Two - Firsthand Accounts (nonfiction)

689 books — 481 voters

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,758 books — 25,702 voters

The Last Lion by William Manchester

Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro

The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

Hitler by Alan Bullock

Best Biographies

1,764 books — 3,332 voters

A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous

The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

Best World War II History (nonfiction)

703 books — 521 voters

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

The Gun by C.J. Chivers

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

The darkest books I have ever read.

64 books — 14 voters

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Anthem by Ayn Rand

1984 by George Orwell

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

4,019 books — 26,684 voters

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Apocalypses and Dystopias

903 books — 668 voters

The Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch

500 Essential Graphic Novels

940 books — 868 voters

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch

The Book of Genesis by Robert Crumb

Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware

Best Graphic Novels

3,475 books — 6,783 voters

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

Best Dark Humor

742 books — 1,656 voters

Dream Palace of the Arabs by Fouad Ajami

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

General Middle East/Islam

58 books — 19 voters

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