Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/27443578-john">John</a> (29 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by John (29 Lists)

Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro

Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro

John Adams by David McCullough

Best Presidential Biographies (nonfiction)

470 books — 528 voters

John Adams by David McCullough

Washington by Ron Chernow

The Three Lives of James Madison by Noah Feldman

Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham

Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

U.S. Presidential Biographies Quest 2017

10 books — 3 voters

Logical Chess by Irving Chernev

How to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman

Best Chess Books

303 books — 127 voters

The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans

The Agricola and The Germania by Tacitus

Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder

596 books — 155 voters

The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury

Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi

Capone by John Kobler

Underboss by Peter Maas

French Connection by Robin Moore

Gangland Histories

117 books — 46 voters

Nixonland by Rick Perlstein

Truman by David McCullough

John Adams by David McCullough

Why Americans Hate Politics by E.J. Dionne Jr.

American Politics

491 books — 138 voters

The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

The Times Online 100 Best Books of the Decade (2000-2009)

100 books — 265 voters

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Cocaine by Dominic Streatfeild

BLOW by Bruce Porter

American Desperado by Jon Roberts

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey

The truth about drugs...

149 books — 133 voters

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

Books White People Need to Read

1,389 books — 1,660 voters

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Sociology Books

560 books — 419 voters

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Republic by Plato

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

509 books — 515 voters

What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas Frank

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray

The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein

Overhyped "Flavor of the Week" (Nonfiction Only)

41 books — 3 voters

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

Fatherland by Robert Harris

Best Alternate History

370 books — 697 voters

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Both the book and the movie are good!

635 books — 322 voters

The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand

The Proper Bostonians by Cleveland Amory

The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor

The Rascal King by Jack Beatty

333 books — 281 voters

The Histories by Herodotus

1066 and all that by W.C. Sellar

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

The History of Rome, Books 1-5 by Livy

Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede

History as Literature

745 books — 662 voters

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

The Proud Tower by Barbara W. Tuchman

Citizens by Simon Schama

291 books — 85 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

Berlin Diary by William L. Shirer

The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans

The Order of the Death's Head by Heinz Höhne

Classics on Nazi Germany

113 books — 78 voters

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson

Socialist Classics

422 books — 337 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

I Love New York City

608 books — 357 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

World War One Literature

226 books — 358 voters

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Best Progressive Reads

1,070 books — 726 voters

Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen

Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen

Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen

Florida Mystery/Thrillers

216 books — 118 voters

The Corpse Had a Familiar Face by Edna Buchanan

Miami by Joan Didion

Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen

Miami (and South Florida)

155 books — 92 voters

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi

Donnie Brasco by Joseph D. Pistone

The Last Mafioso by Ovid Demaris

Underboss by Peter Maas

Best Mafia Books

238 books — 354 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury

Tales of New York City

1,719 books — 1,290 voters

The Strange Death of Liberal England 1910-1914 by George Dangerfield

The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson

Anglo-Saxon England by Frank M. Stenton

Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede

Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey

British History

802 books — 204 voters

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke

The Worst Books of All Time

8,112 books — 19,890 voters

The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

Best Historical Fiction

7,857 books — 26,159 voters