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A God in Ruins by Kate AtkinsonIn the Warsaw Ghetto by Glenn HaybittleHHhH by Laurent BinetWarlight by Michael OndaatjeEvery Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
Best 1940s Historical Fiction
380 books — 420 voters
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Books That Changed My Life: n+1 No Regrets pt. 2
134 books — 12 voters

The Waves by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
From Virginia's Room
85 books — 60 voters
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio BassaniThe Pianist by Wladyslaw SzpilmanThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeWarlight by Michael OndaatjeHouse on the Hill by Cesare Pavese
Best WWII Fiction and Biography
697 books — 579 voters

The Waves by Virginia WoolfUnderworld by Don DeLilloPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoMao II by Don DeLillo
Postmodern Novels
102 books — 111 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrHHhH by Laurent BinetThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn Haybittle
Best WWII Historical Fiction
446 books — 632 voters

Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Wings of the Dove by Henry JamesThe War in Venice by Glenn Haybittle
Venice
96 books — 54 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Prophet by Kahlil GibranLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
764 books — 1,133 voters

Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir NabokovMiddlemarch by George EliotBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Family Sagas
618 books — 673 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrHHhH by Laurent BinetA Life in Secrets by Sarah HelmEvery Man Dies Alone by Hans FalladaResistance by Agnès Humbert
WW2: The Resistance - Fiction & Non-Fiction
306 books — 192 voters

The History of Love by Nicole KraussWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Flavorwire's 50 Excellent Novels by Female Writers Under 50 That Everyone Should Read
50 books — 108 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeTrieste by Daša DrndićThe Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare PaveseThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Italy in World War Two; fiction and non fiction.
50 books — 14 voters

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Historical Fiction 2017
339 books — 852 voters
Warlight by Michael OndaatjeA Long Way from Home by Peter CareyEvie and Jack by Glenn Haybittle
Historical Fiction 2018
419 books — 975 voters

The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeFugitive Pieces by Anne MichaelsHouse on the Hill by Cesare PaveseThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleA Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
Best Male Characters in circa World War Two Books
144 books — 36 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleA Thread of Grace by Mary Doria RussellTrieste by Daša DrndićAlone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
Excellent World War 2 Novels
116 books — 47 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrTrieste by Daša DrndićThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleAlone in Berlin by Hans FalladaFugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Surviving German Occupation
159 books — 75 voters
Beloved by Toni MorrisonA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttGilead by Marilynne Robinson
Women Pulitzer Winners in Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
83 books — 36 voters

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsCat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee WilliamsThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Mississippi Writers - Best 100 books by
305 books — 115 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeTrieste by Daša DrndićThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleArtemisia by Anna BantiA Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
Historical Fiction - Italy
245 books — 103 voters

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonTrieste by Daša DrndićThe History of Love by Nicole KraussTime's Arrow by Martin AmisThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Well-Written Holocaust Books
890 books — 2,880 voters
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThe History of Love by Nicole KraussThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellThe Story of a New Name by Elena FerranteCloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Best Literary Fiction of 21st Century
643 books — 277 voters

Moments of Being by Virginia WoolfA Writer's Diary by Virginia WoolfLetters and Journals by Katherine MansfieldOut of Africa by Isak DinesenBut You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Memoirs by Women
2,984 books — 3,013 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoSome Luck by Jane Smiley
Abandoned Books
1,474 books — 1,465 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithOn Beauty by Zadie SmithSula by Toni Morrison
Best Books by Women of Color
629 books — 75 voters
The Waves by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfMiddlemarch by George EliotWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Women on the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" List
287 books — 165 voters

The Quest for Corvo by A.J.A. SymonsSurvivor of Buchenwald by Louis GrosBenevolence and Betrayal by Alexander StilleThe Common Reader by Virginia WoolfPaper Love by Sarah Wildman
The Last 10 Nonfiction Books I Read
2,979 books — 1,124 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,278 voters

Underworld by Don DeLilloThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeImmortality by Milan KunderaWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithMao II by Don DeLillo
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,130 books — 3,678 voters
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna AkhmatovaTrieste by Daša Drndić
Women Writers from Central & Eastern Europe in English Translation
236 books — 175 voters


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