To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryAn American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
The Great American Novel
673 books — 1,114 voters
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Best Southern Literature
1,415 books — 2,695 voters

Hitler by Alan BullockFatelessness by Imre Kertész
Best WWII Fiction and Biography
700 books — 611 voters

Goodbye to All That by Robert GravesTestament of Youth by Vera Brittain
The Lost Generation
116 books — 36 voters
Inferno by Dante AlighieriThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Middle Ages Books
1,317 books — 1,929 voters

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,101 books — 26,984 voters
Herzog by Saul BellowHenderson the Rain King by Saul BellowLight in August by William Faulkner
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
381 books — 284 voters

Eye of the Needle by Ken FollettThe Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall
Edgar Award Winners
126 books — 208 voters

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Pulitzer Winners: General Non-fiction
87 books — 363 voters
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
Booker Prize Winners
63 books — 2,011 voters

Replay by Ken GrimwoodTimescape by Gregory Benford
Best Time Travel Fiction
2,219 books — 5,516 voters
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryAngle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,886 voters

Goodbye to All That by Robert GravesWith the Old Breed by Eugene B. SledgeA Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,271 books — 2,625 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
33,005 books — 125,178 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerHitler by Joachim FestEichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah ArendtSophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette DumbachThey Thought They Were Free by Milton Sanford Mayer
Classics on Nazi Germany
115 books — 79 voters
The Crowd in the French Revolution by George Rudé
The French Revolution
231 books — 296 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Strange Death of Liberal England by George DangerfieldThe Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 by Walter E. HoughtonA Life Apart by Standish MeachamVictorian Murderesses by Mary S. Hartman
British History from 1066
520 books — 133 voters
A Passage to India by E.M. ForsterThe Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
Excellent Books about India and England
283 books — 271 voters

With the Old Breed by Eugene B. SledgeRising Tide by John M. BarryThe Making of the English Working Class by E.P. ThompsonThe Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
Best History Books
4,096 books — 4,755 voters