Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonArmageddon by Max HastingsAn Army at Dawn by Rick AtkinsonA World At Arms by Gerhard L. WeinbergCrossroads of Freedom by James M. McPherson
Pritzker Literature Award Winners
52 books — 5 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyTrue Grit by Charles PortisAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Literary Westerns
283 books — 386 voters

Flags of Our Fathers by James D. BradleyThe Civil War, Vol. 2 by Shelby FooteThomas Jefferson by Jon MeachamThe Civil War, Vol. 1 by Shelby Foote
Best American History Books
2,135 books — 2,501 voters
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
467 books — 855 voters

Andersonville by MacKinlay KantorThe Last Full Measure by Jeff ShaaraGods and Generals by Jeff ShaaraThe Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre BoulleThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Best War Novels
1,680 books — 1,424 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque1984 by George Orwell
What Dystopian Readers Should Know
127 books — 57 voters

A Woman in Berlin by AnonymousThe Forgotten Soldier by Guy SajerArmageddon by Max HastingsFlyboys by James D. BradleyBand of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
Best World War II History (nonfiction)
682 books — 497 voters
East of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckDracula by Bram Stoker
Best Books with Rural Settings
1,137 books — 1,016 voters

The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
Best Modern Day Military Accounts
441 books — 592 voters
Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas Southall FreemanMary Chesnut's Civil War by Mary Boykin ChesnutThe Civil War by Shelby FooteThe Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume Two by Ulysses S. GrantFighting for the Confederacy by Edward Porter Alexander
Best American Civil War Books
1,008 books — 986 voters