Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
755 books — 1,829 voters
Middlemarch by George EliotThe Mill on the Floss by George EliotOn Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,748 books — 6,901 voters

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip Gourevitch
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,267 books — 8,079 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLord of the Flies by William Golding
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,868 voters
Night by Elie WieselThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankMaus I by Art SpiegelmanIf This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo LeviMaus II by Art Spiegelman
Essential Books on the Holocaust
208 books — 211 voters

Hiroshima by John HerseyThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
A WWII Reading List
724 books — 384 voters
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
Best of Willa Cather
94 books — 20 voters

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréThe Quiet American by Graham Greene
Best Spy Novels
1,387 books — 2,431 voters

Anonymous Soldiers by Bruce HoffmanIsrael by Daniel GordisMy Promised Land by Ari ShavitLike Dreamers by Yossi Klein HaleviRise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman
Israel (fiction and nonfiction)
144 books — 20 voters
Bloodlands by Timothy SnyderThe Harvest of Sorrow by Robert ConquestRed Famine by Anne Applebaum
Best Ukrainian History Books
125 books — 23 voters

Orderly and Humane by R.M. DouglasThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
German History
596 books — 155 voters
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Best Contemporary Short Fiction
80 books — 68 voters

A Death in Vienna by Frank TallisNight Falls on the City by Sarah GainhamA New World Begins by Jeremy D. Popkin
Novels set in Vienna
15 books — 14 voters
The Radetzky March by Joseph RothThe World of Yesterday by Stefan ZweigA Nervous Splendor by Frederic Morton
Austro-Hungarian Empire
56 books — 54 voters

Ajax, the Dutch, the War  by Simon KuperFever Pitch by Nick HornbyHow Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer
Best Football (Soccer) Books
520 books — 389 voters

The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
Best WWII Fiction and Biography
704 books — 587 voters
Presumed Innocent by Scott TurowIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Legal Thrillers
303 books — 442 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerNight by Elie Wiesel
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,407 books — 123,423 voters
Ajax, the Dutch, the War  by Simon KuperFever Pitch by Nick HornbyHow Soccer Explains the World by Franklin FoerThe Greatest Comeback by David Bolchover
Soccer Books to Read Next
140 books — 53 voters

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,888 books — 49,807 voters
Last Waltz in Vienna by George ClareThe Chosen by Chaim PotokMy Promised Land by Ari ShavitSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo LeviLike Dreamers by Yossi Klein Halevi
JEWISH ISSUES
126 books — 54 voters

January Window by Philip Kerr
Best Football (Soccer) Fiction
32 books — 10 voters
Story of a Secret State by Jan Karski
Best of Polish History
205 books — 48 voters

The Winds of War by Herman WoukThe Chosen by Chaim PotokMarch Violets by Philip KerrExodus by Leon UrisA German Requiem by Philip Kerr
Best 1940s Historical Fiction
395 books — 432 voters
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Writers who committed suicide
458 books — 287 voters


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