Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Altonmann (8 Lists)



The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence S. RitterThe New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill JamesEight Men Out by Eliot AsinofA False Spring by Pat JordanHow Life Imitates the World Series by Thomas Boswell
Best Baseball Books
750 books — 654 voters
The Sound of the City by Charlie GillettChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanThe Jazz Tradition by Martin T. WilliamsLast Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnickto Be or not to Bop by Dizzy Gillespie
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,441 books — 1,351 voters

Wild Swans by Jung ChangGhosts of Spain by Giles TremlettThe Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias JonesOracle Bones by Peter HesslerMidnight in Sicily by Peter Robb
Foreign Lands
2,366 books — 2,199 voters
The Tummy Trilogy by Calvin TrillinHeat by Bill BufordThe Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey SteingartenThe Big Oyster by Mark KurlanskyThe Perfectionist by Rudolph Chelminski
Food-Related Non-Fiction
1,228 books — 1,635 voters

The Power Broker by Robert A. CaroA Bright Shining Lie by Neil SheehanCadillac Desert by Marc ReisnerA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Best American History Books
2,158 books — 2,514 voters
The Power Broker by Robert A. CaroA Bright Shining Lie by Neil SheehanCadillac Desert by Marc ReisnerThe Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
History as Literature
732 books — 536 voters

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithThe Butcher's Boy by Thomas PerryThe 31st Of February by Julian SymonsBeast In View by Margaret Millar
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,337 books — 15,882 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareThe Tempest by William ShakespeareAntony and Cleopatra by William ShakespeareRichard II by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
104 books — 1,247 voters