Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/26553024-laurie">Laurie</a> (44 Lists)

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The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine

The Milions' Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2021 Book Preview (July - September)

86 books — 33 voters

Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel

Economist Book Reviews 2020

101 books — 10 voters

Crossing to Avalon by Jean Shinoda Bolen

Avalonian Tradition

21 books — 4 voters

The Mabinogion Tetralogy by Evangeline Walton

Best Arthurian Fiction

476 books — 1,442 voters

The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston

Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

Seven-Day Magic by Edward Eager

The Velvet Room by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Treasure of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston

Forgotten Kids Books of Quality

952 books — 341 voters

Black and Blue Magic by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Gus Was a Friendly Ghost by Jane Thayer

Obscure Children's Vintage Gems

661 books — 238 voters

Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne

The River's Tale by Edward Gargan

The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill

Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin

Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill

Best for Backpacking through Southeast Asia

315 books — 335 voters

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić

903 books — 195 voters

The Lost Capital of Byzantium by Steven Runciman

Medieval Roman Empire

251 books — 30 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Best Historical Fiction Set in UK and Ireland

1,346 books — 1,582 voters

The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland

The Innocent Wayfaring by Marchette Gaylord Chute

The Witch's Brat by Rosemary Sutcliff

Tristan and Iseult by Rosemary Sutcliff

YA Medieval historical fiction

272 books — 164 voters

The Vienna I knew by Joseph Wechsberg

The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

Austro-Hungarian Empire

56 books — 54 voters

Salonica, City of Ghosts by Mark Mazower

Cairo by Max Rodenbeck

A Nervous Splendor by Frederic Morton

Dr. Johnson's London by Liza Picard

Thunder at Twilight by Frederic Morton

Histories of Cities

260 books — 105 voters

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony

Apples Are from Kazakhstan by Christopher Robbins

In Search of Zarathustra by Paul Kriwaczek

112 books — 21 voters

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

Literary Spy Stories

200 books — 223 voters

Jack of Kinrowan by Charles de Lint

Snow White, Blood Red by Ellen Datlow

Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue

A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales by Ellen Datlow

Fairy Tale Retellings: Hidden Gems

587 books — 732 voters

Fin-de-Siècle Vienna by Carl E. Schorske

A Nervous Splendor by Frederic Morton

256 books — 113 voters

Bohemian Paris by Dan Franck

The Essence of Style by Joan DeJean

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Proud Tower by Barbara W. Tuchman

289 books — 83 voters

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Olympia by Otto Friedrich

Best History and Non Fiction Books for Teenage Boys

115 books — 43 voters

The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen

The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen

Venice for Pleasure by J.G. Links

In Search of London by H.V. Morton

Common Reader Catalog Part II

91 books — 8 voters

The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

Common Reader Catalog May 2003 Part I

100 books — 16 voters

The Oldest Dead White European Males & Other Reflections on t... by Bernard Knox

The Best Weird, Unusual and Different Non-fiction books

206 books — 35 voters

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux

The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński

Angry Wind by Jeffrey Tayler

Eastward to Tartary by Robert D. Kaplan

Conflict-Zone Journalism

283 books — 140 voters

Turkestan Solo by Ella Maillart

Ultimate Backpacking Novels

470 books — 1,135 voters

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen

French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano

Unusual Cookbooks

578 books — 84 voters

Theodora by Stella Duffy

Byzantium Empire - Fiction

87 books — 60 voters

A History of Private Life by Philippe Ariès

The Weaker Vessel by Antonia Fraser

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman

Daily Life in Chaucer's England by Jeffrey L. Singman

Revelations of the Medieval World by Philippe Ariès

Social History Books - All About People & Society

772 books — 218 voters

Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andrić

Best South Slavic Literature

363 books — 306 voters

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić

Balkan Ghosts by Robert D. Kaplan

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

272 books — 204 voters

Deerskin by Robin McKinley

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

The Squire's Tale by Gerald Morris

The High King by Lloyd Alexander

Best Retellings of fairytales, legends and history

414 books — 259 voters

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