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
784 books — 1,024 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
539 books — 246 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
295 books — 182 voters

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Most influential books under 100 pages
292 books — 987 voters
I, Claudius by Robert GravesBen-Hur by Lew Wallace
Best Books About Ancient Rome
759 books — 1,149 voters

Médicis Daughter by Sophie PerinotNaked by Eliza Redgold
Historical Fiction 2015
431 books — 2,139 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
1,475 books — 2,734 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Great Women Authors
1,212 books — 338 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Dragons
1,924 books — 2,578 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
2,382 books — 1,484 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
242 books — 135 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
82 books — 181 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)
389 books — 188 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
1,416 books — 1,660 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
590 books — 522 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
205 books — 68 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
1,641 books — 5,998 voters



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