Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Brad (18 Lists)



Truman by David McCulloughThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselJohn Adams by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
100 Biographies & Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
1,876 books — 1,776 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean HowellsIsaac's Storm by Erik Larson
Gilded Age Literature
151 books — 78 voters

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Best Southern Books
826 books — 739 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
True Crime
727 books — 617 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonCase Closed by Gerald Posner
True Crime--Well Written
389 books — 392 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughTruman by David McCulloughTheodore Rex by Edmund MorrisThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisDestiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
Best Presidential Biographies (nonfiction)
467 books — 524 voters

Lincoln by David Herbert DonaldLincoln by Gore VidalAbraham Lincoln by Carl SandburgLincoln's Melancholy by Joshua Wolf ShenkWith Malice Toward None by Stephen B. Oates
Best Books About Abraham Lincoln
110 books — 122 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldCharlotte’s Web by E.B. White
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
15,359 books — 17,614 voters

The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro
A list of largely pointless books by unknown authors
377 books — 350 voters
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Best True Crime History Books (nonfiction)
366 books — 238 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselNumber the Stars by Lois LowryThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
World War II/Holocaust Fiction & Non-fiction
957 books — 763 voters
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Books Ever
76,515 books — 284,593 voters

Black Night, White Snow by Harrison E. SalisburyThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Russian History Books
550 books — 385 voters
The Breaks of the Game by David HalberstamA Season on the Brink by John FeinsteinSecond Wind by Bill RussellLoose Balls by Terry PlutoThe Last Amateurs by John Feinstein
Tales from the Hardwood
279 books — 158 voters

Ball Four by Jim BoutonSummer of '49 by David HalberstamMen at Work by George F. Will
Best Baseball Books
749 books — 655 voters
Main Street by Sinclair LewisArrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
Lovely Signet Classics From the 60s (Give Or Take a Few Years)
35 books — 15 voters

The Johnstown Flood by David McCulloughWorking by Studs TerkelSavage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,235 books — 8,066 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best True Crime
1,341 books — 1,910 voters