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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
2,013 books — 2,311 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
153 books — 80 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
843 books — 751 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
True Crime
756 books — 659 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonCase Closed by Gerald Posner
True Crime--Well Written
407 books — 421 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)
471 books — 531 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
114 books — 126 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
16,113 books — 19,033 voters

The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro
A list of largely pointless books by unknown authors
377 books — 351 voters
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Best True Crime History Books (nonfiction)
390 books — 293 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
1,039 books — 854 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
79,703 books — 297,041 voters

Black Night, White Snow by Harrison E. SalisburyThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Russian History Books
588 books — 411 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
283 books — 161 voters

Ball Four by Jim BoutonSummer of '49 by David HalberstamMen at Work by George F. Will
Best Baseball Books
762 books — 659 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)
6,429 books — 8,213 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best True Crime
1,523 books — 2,210 voters