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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
1,935 books — 1,934 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
154 books — 81 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
837 books — 749 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
True Crime
742 books — 626 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonCase Closed by Gerald Posner
True Crime--Well Written
401 books — 415 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)
469 books — 527 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
113 books — 125 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
15,877 books — 18,586 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)
381 books — 290 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
992 books — 791 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
78,201 books — 291,638 voters

Black Night, White Snow by Harrison E. SalisburyThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Russian History Books
583 books — 424 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
281 books — 159 voters

Ball Four by Jim BoutonSummer of '49 by David HalberstamMen at Work by George F. Will
Best Baseball Books
755 books — 657 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)
6,261 books — 8,115 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best True Crime
1,452 books — 2,089 voters