The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni
Best Books of 2021
1,434 books — 1,624 voters
On Desperate Ground by Hampton SidesThe Marines of Autumn by James BradyThe Last Stand of Fox Company by Bob DruryThe Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead
Korean War
136 books — 52 voters

With the Old Breed by Eugene B. SledgeHelmet for My Pillow by Robert LeckiePacific Crucible by Ian W. TollThe Conquering Tide by Ian W. TollFire and Fortitude by John C. McManus
World War II in the Pacific
163 books — 154 voters
11/22/63 by Stephen  KingDoomsday Book by Connie WillisTime and Again by Jack FinneySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Replay by Ken Grimwood
Best Time-Travel Novels
710 books — 432 voters

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtryLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Gates of the Alamo by Stephen HarriganStreets of Laredo by Larry McMurtryLeaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry
Novels Written By Texans
148 books — 47 voters
Deliverance by James DickeyBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonThe Rosewood Casket by Sharyn McCrumbThe Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumbShe Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
Hillbilly Heaven
175 books — 50 voters

11/22/63 by Stephen  KingDoomsday Book by Connie WillisTime and Again by Jack FinneyAll Our Wrong Todays by Elan MastaiFrom Time to Time by Jack Finney
Time Travel
335 books — 287 voters

Cosmic Banditos by A.C. Weisbecker
Best Books You've Never Heard Of
1,267 books — 791 voters
Cross of Iron by Willi HeinrichSiege by Russ SchneiderDas Boot by Lothar-Günther BuchheimWar of the Rats by David L. RobbinsSophie's Choice by William Styron
Fiction Set During WWII
385 books — 257 voters

Absinthe by Barnaby Conrad IIIWhen Paris Sizzled by Mary McAuliffeDawn of the Belle Epoque by Mary McAuliffeTwilight of the Belle Epoque by Mary McAuliffeFrance, Fin de Siecle by Eugen Weber
Paris as a City: non-fiction
43 books — 12 voters
Glencoe by John PrebbleScotland by Magnus MagnussonCulloden 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 CaldwellBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonDeliverance by James DickeyWinter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellA Painted House by John Grisham
White Trash Literature
191 books — 52 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueI, Claudius by Robert GravesThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Historical fiction worth reading
1,265 books — 606 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellCold Mountain by Charles FrazierA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Great Books of Southern Fiction
379 books — 440 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnCosmos by Carl SaganThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,227 books — 8,066 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Kitchen Boy by Robert AlexanderRusska by Edward RutherfurdOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Historical Fiction: Russia
307 books — 477 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Yellow Birds by Kevin PowersSACRIFICES -- A Novel Of The Vietnam War by James Nathan PostJokers by Vern Hammill
Life in The Military (Fiction)
27 books — 9 voters
A Sense of Honor by James WebbThe Return Of Philo T. McGiffin by David PoyerThe Recipient's Son by Stephen  Phillips
US Naval Academy Fiction
23 books — 5 voters

Patton by Carlo D'EsteKnight's Cross by David FraserAn Army at Dawn by Rick AtkinsonThe Day of Battle by Rick AtkinsonThe Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
H.R. McMaster's Reading List
39 books — 6 voters
Brutal Valour by James MaceWaterloo by Andrew SwanstonFlesh Wounds by David HolbrookOn His Majesty's Service by Allan MallinsonWords of Command by Allan Mallinson
British military fiction.
58 books — 6 voters

Meditations in Green by Stephen WrightGoing After Cacciato by Tim O'BrienBetter Times Than These by Winston GroomThe 13th Valley by John M. Del VecchioGardens Of Stone by Nicholas Proffitt
VIETNAM WAR HISTORICAL FICTION.
60 books — 10 voters
Sophie’s Choice by William StyronThe White Hotel by D.M. ThomasSpark of Life by Erich Maria Remarque
Well-Written Holocaust Books
889 books — 2,880 voters

The Sot-Weed Factor by John BarthEurope Central by William T. Vollmann
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 143 voters
Europe Central by William T. VollmannSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Must Read Before You Die
555 books — 183 voters


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