Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/4223940-lance-polin">Lance Polin</a> (283 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lance Polin (283 Lists)

The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro

Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro

Open Secrets by Alice Munro

Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013! Here's a reading list.

17 books — 13 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez

19 books — 63 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Best of Fyodor Dostoevsky

31 books — 109 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Greatest Russian Novels of All Time

218 books — 507 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Best Russian Literature

500 books — 2,310 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class

628 books — 2,776 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

King Lear by William Shakespeare

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

10 Books to Recreate Literature

34 books — 14 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

1984 by George Orwell

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Best Authors Ever

490 books — 246 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Most influential books under 100 pages

309 books — 1,003 voters

Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace

G-Man by Beverly Gage

Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne

Female Pulitzer Prize Winners of the 21st Century

58 books — 3 voters

The Federalist Papers & Anti-Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson

The American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Collected Writings by Thomas Paine

American Founding Texts (nonfiction)

55 books — 15 voters

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1776 by David McCullough

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

The War for Independence: Best Books that Shaped the US Nation (American History)

7 books — 9 voters

American Revolutions by Alan Taylor

The American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

Angel in the Whirlwind by Benson Bobrick

The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

Journal of the American Revolution 100 Best Books

18 books — 14 voters

Washington by Ron Chernow

1776 by David McCullough

The Cause by Joseph J. Ellis

The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson

Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis

U.S Revolution (nonfiction)

31 books — 17 voters

The Name of War by Jill Lepore

Crucible of War by Fred Anderson

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose

"The American Indian Wars" (nonfiction)

174 books — 26 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Grant by Ron Chernow

Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

History Books - Fact and Fiction

1,313 books — 501 voters

Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham

American Sphinx by Joseph J. Ellis

The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed

Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose

The Jefferson Bible by Thomas Jefferson

Jeffersonian Books (fiction and nonfiction)

91 books — 37 voters

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

The River of Doubt by Candice Millard

Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Theodore Roosevelt Books (nonfiction)

68 books — 36 voters

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Holy Bible by Anonymous

1491 by Charles C. Mann

The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes

Worst historical non-fiction

48 books — 53 voters

Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich

Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum

Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick

Command and Control by Eric Schlosser

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Cold War (nonfiction)

391 books — 142 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch

Best Books on African American Studies (nonfiction)

271 books — 169 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

The Counter-Culture of the 1960s (fiction and nonfiction)

447 books — 200 voters

L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy

Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Best of the Pulps

390 books — 215 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Tracks by Louise Erdrich

The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Native American Fiction

847 books — 649 voters

1984 by George Orwell

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Stand by Stephen King

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

Creepiest Conspiracy Theory Books

105 books — 19 voters

The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea

Saucers of the Illuminati by Jim Keith

Books About The Illuminati And Other Conspiracy Groups

36 books — 27 voters

Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman

Dark Money by Jane Mayer

Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein

Corruption, Plutocracy, Oligarchy, Kleptocracy, Corporatocracy — The Problem (nonfiction)

756 books — 256 voters

None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen

Rule by Secrecy by Jim Marrs

Alien Agenda by Jim Marrs

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs

conspiracy theories

115 books — 21 voters

Them by Jon Ronson

Voodoo Histories by David Aaronovitch

Republic of Lies by Anna Merlan

Conspiracy Theory in America by Lance deHaven-Smith

Dark Money by Jane Mayer

Dead Reckoning : Understanding Conspiracy Theory

59 books — 29 voters

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

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

The Gods of Eden by William Bramley

Them by Jon Ronson

Rule by Secrecy by Jim Marrs

Underground Knowledge (fiction and nonfiction)

1,515 books — 851 voters

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