Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/37511629-aaron">Aaron</a> (12 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Aaron (12 Lists)

Becoming a Man by Paul Monette

City of Night by John Rechy

Gay New York by George Chauncey

Close to the Knives by David Wojnarowicz

Faggots by Larry Kramer

207 books — 11 voters

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter

When We Rise by Cleve Jones

Dino by Nick Tosches

Best American History Books

2,278 books — 3,123 voters

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro

Low Life by Lucy Sante

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

Best History Books

4,042 books — 4,544 voters

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Ou... by Philip Gourevitch

Life on the Outside by Jennifer Gonnerman

Invisible Punishment by Meda Chesney-Lind

Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class

2,229 books — 1,689 voters

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Medicine and Literature

2,016 books — 2,272 voters

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

We Think the World of You by J.R. Ackerley

Best Gay Fiction

2,715 books — 3,927 voters

Smash Cut by Brad Gooch

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Dry by Augusten Burroughs

When We Rise by Cleve Jones

Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction

837 books — 493 voters

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Life by Keith Richards

This Wheel's on Fire by Levon Helm

Let's Talk About Love by Carl Wilson

I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp by Richard Hell

Best Non Fiction About Music

1,510 books — 1,438 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,406 books — 8,187 voters

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Low Life by Lucy Sante

Tales of New York City

1,749 books — 1,336 voters

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,301 books — 11,682 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Odyssey by Homer

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,715 books — 13,293 voters