Escapist Reads

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Richard (11 Lists)



For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayDracula by Bram StokerJaws by Peter BenchleySophie’s Choice by William StyronRagtime by E.L. Doctorow
I Saw the Movie & Read the Book
1,913 books — 1,762 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughTruman by David McCulloughAndrew Jackson by H.W. BrandsWashington by Ron ChernowThomas Jefferson by Fawn M. Brodie
Best Presidential Biographies (nonfiction)
470 books — 528 voters

D.W. Griffith by Richard SchickelDouglas Fairbanks by Jeffrey VanceChaplin by David RobinsonAmerican Silent Film by William K. Everson
Books about Silent Movies
171 books — 78 voters
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson MandelaMy Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan
Best South African reads
314 books — 183 voters

The Roads to Sata by Alan BoothHiroshima by John HerseyFirst Into Nagasaki by George WellerYou Gotta Have Wa by Robert WhitingShōgun by James Clavell
Best Books About Japan
533 books — 359 voters
Patriots by A.J. LangguthThe Great Bridge by David McCulloughThat Dark and Bloody River by Allan W. EckertThe Power Broker by Robert A. CaroThe First American by H.W. Brands
Best American History Books
2,235 books — 2,731 voters

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Notable Atheist Books
585 books — 998 voters
That Dark and Bloody River by Allan W. EckertThe Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,528 books — 69,920 voters

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George
Best Books About Tudor England
635 books — 1,660 voters
Iberia by James A. MichenerFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayDriving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart
Spain
514 books — 245 voters

Patriots by A.J. LangguthAlexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Best Books About The American Revolution
240 books — 242 voters