Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/3023823-melisende">Melisende</a> (51 Lists)

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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction

786 books — 1,051 voters

Adolf Hitler by Spike Milligan

How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle

Books Mentioned in Hitch-22

101 books — 25 voters

The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

532 books — 245 voters

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert

The Tigress of Forlì by Elizabeth Lev

Lucrezia Borgia by Sarah Bradford

Catherine de Medici by Leonie Frieda

The Italian Renaissance

291 books — 181 voters

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Most influential books under 100 pages

308 books — 1,003 voters

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace

Best Books About Ancient Rome

762 books — 1,161 voters

Médicis Daughter by Sophie Perinot

Naked by Eliza Redgold

Historical Fiction 2015

439 books — 2,141 voters

Margaret of Anjou by Helen E. Maurer

The Kingmaker's Sisters by David Baldwin

The Women of the Wars of the Roses Elizabeth Woodville, Marga... by Alicia Carter

The Last Days of Richard III by John Ashdown-Hill

People of the Wars of the Roses (Non-fiction)

138 books — 58 voters

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré

The 39 Steps by John Buchan

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

Smiley's People by John le Carré

Best Spy Novels

1,495 books — 2,753 voters

The Lion in Winter by James Goldman

The Passionate Brood by Margaret Campbell Barnes

Historical Fiction: The House of Plantagenet

220 books — 496 voters

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré

Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow

100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

2,695 books — 6,680 voters

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick

Endless Night by Agatha Christie

So You're a Homeowner...

313 books — 79 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy

Great Women Authors

1,214 books — 341 voters

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

King Arthur, Kith, Kin and Camelot = Series

108 books — 106 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

1,925 books — 2,581 voters

Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett

The Falconer's Knot by Mary Hoffman

Dodger by James Benmore

The Marriage of Meggotta by Edith Pargeter

The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson

The Unknown, Hidden Gems of Historical Fiction

2,372 books — 1,574 voters

The Harlot's Tale by Sam Thomas

A King's Ransom by Sharon Kay Penman

Girl on the Golden Coin by Marci Jefferson

The Red Lily Crown by Elizabeth Loupas

Daughter of the Gods by Stephanie Marie Thornton

Historical Fiction 2014

423 books — 2,020 voters

The Normans in Sicily by John Julius Norwich

The Normans in Europe by A.H. Johnson

William Rufus by Frank Barlow

The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily by Gordon S. Brown

The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris

Best Non-Fiction About The Normans: Their Conquests & Dynasties AD 1066 - 1154

127 books — 33 voters

Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

A Cargo of Women by Babette Smith

Sara Dane by Catherine Gaskin

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

Historical fiction: Australia

239 books — 126 voters

Lucrezia Borgia by Sarah Bradford

The Borgias and Their Enemies by Christopher Hibbert

Poison in the Blood by M.G. Scarsbrook

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Life & Legend Of Lucrezia Borgia by M.G. Scarsbrook

Best Books about the Borgia Family

77 books — 178 voters

The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury by Edith Pargeter

Medieval England (Historical Fiction)

385 books — 186 voters

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman

The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd

The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George

Best Historical Fiction Set in UK and Ireland

1,433 books — 1,662 voters

The Mabinogion by Unknown

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Iliad by Homer

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Heimskringlaor, or The Lives of the Norse Kings by Snorri Sturluson

Everyman Library Classics

174 books — 96 voters

The Origin and Deeds of the Goths by Jordanes

History of the Goths by Herwig Wolfram

The Nibelungenlied by Unknown

The Goths. Ostrogothic and Visigothic history and legend.

55 books — 8 voters

The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser

The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The Black Swan by Rafael Sabatini

The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

584 books — 514 voters

The Quest for Arthur's Britain by Geoffrey Ashe

An Age of Tyrants by Christopher A. Snyder

The History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours

Roman Britain and Early England, 55 BC-AD871 by Peter Hunter Blair

The Vikings by René Chartrand

Dark age European history

208 books — 68 voters

Four Sisters, All Queens by Sherry Jones

The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich

Illuminations by Mary Sharratt

The Unexpected Miss Bennet by Patrice Sarath

The Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O'Melveny

Women's Fiction 2012

54 books — 130 voters

Miles to Go by Miley Cyrus

How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann Coulter

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter

Slander by Ann Coulter

Godless by Ann Coulter

Books I Have No Intention of Reading

1,641 books — 5,999 voters

The Queen's Vow by C.W. Gortner

The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak

The Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O'Melveny

Historical Fiction 2012 Releases - Which books are you looking forward to the most?

163 books — 1,127 voters

Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner

Animalia by Graeme Base

The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie by May Gibbs

The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek by Jenny Wagner

A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce

Australian Children's Literature

419 books — 204 voters

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