Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
West Virginia
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Historical Fiction - Italy
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Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
Favorite Epic Grit
102 books — 34 voters
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
What Dystopian Readers Should Know
128 books — 58 voters

The Robe by Lloyd C. DouglasQuo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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315 books — 243 voters
Dunaway's Crossing by Nancy Brandon
1918 Flu Pandemic
98 books — 65 voters

The Physician by Noah GordonCutting for Stone by Abraham   Verghese
Best Historical Medical Fiction
149 books — 125 voters

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Big Page Count, Epic Historical Fiction
201 books — 244 voters
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Novels for the Wanderer
159 books — 126 voters

Doctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakCity of Thieves by David BenioffSashenka by Simon Sebag MontefioreKane and Abel by Jeffrey ArcherWe the Living by Ayn Rand
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307 books — 476 voters
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Family Saga Novels
848 books — 868 voters

11/22/63 by Stephen  KingOutlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Best Time Travel Books of All Time
849 books — 1,761 voters
Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Favorite Travel Books
2,030 books — 3,943 voters

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse AndersonGray's Anatomy by Henry GrayThe Unquiet Bones by Melvin R. Starr
Medicine and Literature
1,878 books — 2,032 voters
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Real Nurses
238 books — 58 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Winds of War by Herman WoukWar and Remembrance by Herman WoukSophie’s Choice by William StyronThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
World War II Fiction
1,399 books — 2,029 voters

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Books That Changed My World
3,289 books — 3,260 voters
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantFollow the River by James Alexander ThomHere Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
Couldn't Put The Book Down
17,190 books — 17,079 voters


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