Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
747 books — 1,817 voters
Middlemarch by George EliotThe Mill on the Floss by George EliotOn Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,719 books — 6,886 voters

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip Gourevitch
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,237 books — 8,068 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 — 5,854 voters
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Essential Books on the Holocaust
201 books — 199 voters

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A WWII Reading List
720 books — 381 voters
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
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94 books — 20 voters

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1,334 books — 2,361 voters

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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 — 154 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
516 books — 385 voters

The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
Best WWII Fiction and Biography
699 books — 581 voters
Presumed Innocent by Scott TurowIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Legal Thrillers
295 books — 428 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
32,039 books — 121,656 voters
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Soccer Books to Read Next
138 books — 51 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
7,886 books — 49,791 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
124 books — 52 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
382 books — 422 voters
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Writers who committed suicide
452 books — 284 voters


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