Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by PH (12 Lists)



The Winter King by Bernard CornwellEnemy of God by Bernard CornwellExcalibur by Bernard CornwellLancelot by Giles Kristian
Best Arthurian Fiction
477 books — 1,445 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Cowboy and the Cossack by Clair HuffakerLittle Big Man by Thomas BergerThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckButcher's Crossing by John Williams
Best Westerns
1,383 books — 1,512 voters

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald DurrellWild Swans by Jung Chang
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,876 books — 6,396 voters
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Best South Asian Fiction
737 books — 1,903 voters

The Great War for Civilisation by Robert FiskThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan PappéThe Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
1,989 books — 1,307 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettShōgun by James ClavellThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Best Historical Fiction
7,448 books — 25,643 voters

The Song of Troy by Colleen McCullough
Best Trojan War Retellings
94 books — 136 voters
Gates of Fire by Steven PressfieldCreation by Gore VidalGlory and the Lightning by Taylor CaldwellThe Song of Troy by Colleen McCulloughClytemnestra by Costanza Casati
Historical Fiction: Ancient Greece
145 books — 213 voters

Lamb by Christopher MooreThe Secret Magdalene by Ki LongfellowThe Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos KazantzakisThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fiction with Jesus as a Character
186 books — 168 voters
Caravaggio by Andrew Graham-DixonMoulin Rouge by Pierre la MureSacred & Profane by David WeissThe Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving StoneLust for Life by Irving Stone
Best Biographies and Memoirs About Artists
88 books — 42 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,612 books — 13,154 voters
Quo Vadis by Henryk SienkiewiczJulian by Gore VidalThe First Man in Rome by Colleen McCulloughThe Grass Crown by Colleen McCulloughAugustus by John Williams
Best Books About Ancient Rome
737 books — 1,084 voters