Lost in a Good Book by Jasper FfordeSomething Rotten by Jasper FfordeA Dirty Job by Christopher MooreThe Antipope by Robert RankinThud! by Terry Pratchett
Best Comic Fantasy
131 books — 202 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Lost City of Z by David GrannWest with the Night by Beryl MarkhamThe River of Doubt by Candice MillardA Land So Strange by Andrés Reséndez
Best Historical Travel Journals
335 books — 239 voters

1984 by George OrwellGreat Expectations by Charles DickensMiddlemarch by George EliotEmma by Jane Austen
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,412 books — 10,151 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherDiamonds, Gold, and War by Martin MeredithAfrican Perspectives on Colonialism by A. Adu BoahenWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchChameleon Days by Tim Bascom
Africa - Nonfiction
392 books — 163 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonGood Omens by Terry PratchettGuards! Guards! by Terry PratchettThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Books that Make you Laugh
3,505 books — 5,033 voters
Blood River by Tim Butcher
Best Books Ever
76,194 books — 283,341 voters

The Other Slavery by Andrés ReséndezA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
1,991 books — 1,284 voters
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Books You Would Recommend to Strangers
12,418 books — 7,926 voters

Kon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyHawaii by James A. MichenerHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Around the World in 100 Books
1,316 books — 705 voters
Preparing the Ghost by Matthew Gavin Frank
Ocean Exploration
54 books — 9 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Memoirs of Experiments
237 books — 99 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
8,063 books — 5,740 voters

Chasing the Devil by Tim ButcherNeverwhere by Neil GaimanA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,546 books — 120,145 voters
1491 by Charles C. MannLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildThe Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez
Best History Books
3,703 books — 3,737 voters

Summer by Edith WhartonThe Ransom of Red Chief by O. HenrySomething Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
530 books — 775 voters
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha ChristieThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyWhose Body? by Dorothy L. SayersThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe Man With a Load of Mischief by Martha Grimes
Cozy Mystery Series - First Book of a Series
1,154 books — 2,468 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThrough Siberia by Accident by Dervla MurphyThe Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten TroostDark Star Safari by Paul TherouxThe Chains of Heaven by Philip Marsden
Travel Published in Decade: 2000s
46 books — 20 voters
Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery
Travel Published in Decade: 2010s
57 books — 56 voters

Rope from the Sky by Zach Vertin
Sudan and South Sudan
79 books — 37 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherDark Star Safari by Paul TherouxIn Ethiopia with a Mule by Dervla MurphyJourney Without Maps by Graham GreeneThe Caliph's House by Tahir Shah
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Africa
121 books — 115 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
My Favourite Non Fiction Books
1,381 books — 263 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownBlood River by Tim Butcher
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,226 books — 8,060 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,245 books — 4,417 voters

We Two by Gillian Gill
Best Queen Victoria Books
73 books — 71 voters
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownOrientalism by Edward W. Said
Books About Colonialism
679 books — 239 voters

The Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth HuxleyA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonChasing the Devil by Tim ButcherDark Star Safari by Paul TherouxArabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
Favorite Travel Books
2,022 books — 3,944 voters


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