The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. CainThe Thin Man by Dashiell HammettStrangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
698 books — 873 voters
Adolf Hitler by Spike MilliganHow Green Was My Valley by Richard LlewellynMacbeth by William ShakespeareLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
Books Mentioned in Hitch-22
101 books — 25 voters

The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret GeorgeI, Claudius by Robert Graves
Royal Fiction
513 books — 218 voters
The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe House of Medici by Christopher HibbertThe Tigress of Forlì by Elizabeth LevLucrezia Borgia by Sarah BradfordCatherine de Medici by Leonie Frieda
The Italian Renaissance
281 books — 170 voters

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Most influential books under 100 pages
250 books — 926 voters
I, Claudius by Robert GravesBen-Hur by Lew Wallace
Best Books About Ancient Rome
732 books — 1,076 voters

Médicis Daughter by Sophie PerinotNaked by Eliza Redgold
Historical Fiction 2015
387 books — 2,090 voters

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le CarréThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le CarréThe 39 Steps by John BuchanThe Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythSmiley's People by John Le Carré
Best Spy Novels
1,297 books — 2,226 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Great Women Authors
1,227 books — 333 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Dragons
1,772 books — 2,535 voters
Anna of Byzantium by Tracy BarrettThe Falconer's Knot by Mary HoffmanDodger by James BenmoreThe Marriage of Meggotta by Edith PargeterThe Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
The Unknown, Hidden Gems of Historical Fiction
2,236 books — 1,238 voters

Seven Little Australians by Ethel TurnerPicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayA Cargo of Women by Babette SmithSara Dane by Catherine GaskinA Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Historical fiction: Australia
223 books — 104 voters
Lucrezia Borgia by Sarah BradfordThe Borgias and Their Enemies by Christopher HibbertPoison in the Blood by M.G. ScarsbrookThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Life & Legend Of Lucrezia Borgia by M.G. Scarsbrook
Best Books about the Borgia Family
69 books — 169 voters

The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay PenmanThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettA Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis PetersIvanhoe by Walter ScottA Bloody Field by Shrewsbury by Edith Pargeter
Medieval England (Historical Fiction)
381 books — 178 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyHere Be Dragons by Sharon Kay PenmanThe Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay PenmanThe Princes of Ireland by Edward RutherfurdThe Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George
Best Historical Fiction Set in UK and Ireland
1,314 books — 1,559 voters

The Pyrates by George MacDonald FraserThe Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony HopeThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasThe Black Swan by Rafael SabatiniThe Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
Swashbucklers
559 books — 496 voters
The Quest for Arthur's Britain by Geoffrey AsheAn Age of Tyrants by Christopher A. SnyderThe History of the Franks by Gregory of ToursRoman Britain and Early England, 55 BC-AD871 by Peter Hunter BlairThe Vikings by René Chartrand
Dark age European history
202 books — 67 voters

Four Sisters, All Queens by Sherry    JonesThe Midwife of Venice by Roberta RichIlluminations by Mary SharrattThe Unexpected Miss Bennet by Patrice SarathThe Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O'Melveny
Women's Fiction 2012
52 books — 129 voters
Miles to Go by Miley CyrusHow to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann CoulterIf Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann CoulterSlander by Ann CoulterGodless by Ann Coulter
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,637 books — 5,999 voters



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