Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/17987594-william-savage">William Savage</a> (244 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by William Savage (244 Lists)

Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll

The Wooden World by N.A.M. Rodger

Patrick O'Brian's Navy by Richard O'Neill

A Sea of Words by Dean King

In Nelson's Wake by James Davey

Age of Sail Nonfiction

355 books — 90 voters

1968 by Joe Haldeman

Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Däniken

The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

The Strawberry Statement by James S. Kunen

1968 - The year that rocked the world (fiction and nonfiction)

236 books — 77 voters

The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni

Best Books of 2021

1,436 books — 1,620 voters

On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides

The Marines of Autumn by James Brady

The Last Stand of Fox Company by Bob Drury

The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead

136 books — 52 voters

With the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge

Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie

Pacific Crucible by Ian W. Toll

The Conquering Tide by Ian W. Toll

Fire and Fortitude by John C. McManus

World War II in the Pacific

165 books — 156 voters

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Time and Again by Jack Finney

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Replay by Ken Grimwood

Best Time-Travel Novels

718 books — 481 voters

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan

Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry

Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry

Novels Written By Texans

148 books — 47 voters

Deliverance by James Dickey

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

The Rosewood Casket by Sharyn McCrumb

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumb

She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb

Hillbilly Heaven

175 books — 50 voters

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Finalists, 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

5 books — 3 voters

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Time and Again by Jack Finney

All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

From Time to Time by Jack Finney

336 books — 290 voters

Cosmic Banditos by Allan C. Weisbecker

Best Books You've Never Heard Of

1,267 books — 791 voters

Cross of Iron by Willi Heinrich

Siege by Russ Schneider

Das Boot by Lothar-Günther Buchheim

War of the Rats by David L. Robbins

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Fiction Set During WWII

484 books — 258 voters

Absinthe by Barnaby Conrad III

When Paris Sizzled by Mary McAuliffe

Dawn of the Belle Epoque by Mary McAuliffe

Twilight of the Belle Epoque by Mary McAuliffe

France, Fin de Siecle by Eugen Weber

Paris as a City: non-fiction

43 books — 12 voters

Glencoe by John Prebble

Scotland by Magnus Magnusson

Culloden by John Prebble

Scottish History

286 books — 65 voters

Glencoe by John Prebble

Best Scottish Books Ever Written

91 books — 46 voters

Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Deliverance by James Dickey

Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell

A Painted House by John Grisham

White Trash Literature

191 books — 51 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Historical fiction worth reading

1,275 books — 611 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Great Books of Southern Fiction

380 books — 441 voters

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander

Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the past 45 yrs

1,120 books — 1,150 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,236 books — 8,067 voters

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander

Russka by Edward Rutherfurd

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Historical Fiction: Russia

307 books — 476 voters

The Texas Gun Club by Mark Bowlin

Jokers by Vern Hammill

The Green Hell by J. Scott Payne

SACRIFICES -- A Novel Of The Vietnam War by James Nathan Post

Judgment at Appomattox by Ralph Peters

Military Writers Society of America Favorites

174 books — 62 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

SACRIFICES -- A Novel Of The Vietnam War by James Nathan Post

Jokers by Vern Hammill

Life in The Military (Fiction)

27 books — 9 voters

A Sense of Honor by James Webb

The Return Of Philo T. McGiffin by David Poyer

The Recipient's Son by Stephen Phillips

US Naval Academy Fiction

23 books — 5 voters

Patton by Carlo D'Este

Knight's Cross by David Fraser

An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson

The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson

The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson

H.R. McMaster's Reading List

39 books — 6 voters

Brutal Valour by James Mace

Waterloo by Andrew Swanston

Flesh Wounds by David Holbrook

On His Majesty's Service by Allan Mallinson

Words of Command by Allan Mallinson

British military fiction.

58 books — 6 voters

Meditations in Green by Stephen Wright

Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

Better Times Than These by Winston Groom

The 13th Valley by John M. Del Vecchio

Gardens Of Stone by Nicholas Proffitt

VIETNAM WAR HISTORICAL FICTION.

60 books — 10 voters

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas

Spark of Life by Erich Maria Remarque

Well-Written Holocaust Books

896 books — 2,892 voters

The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth

Europe Central by William T. Vollmann

Rabelais' Codpiece

135 books — 144 voters

Europe Central by William T. Vollmann

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Must Read Before You Die

555 books — 183 voters

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