The Name of War by Jill LeporeCrucible of War by Fred  AndersonBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneCrazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose
"The American Indian Wars" (nonfiction)
170 books — 16 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin12 Years a Slave by Solomon NorthupGrant by Ron ChernowConfederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
History Books - Fact and Fiction
1,281 books — 434 voters

Mein Kampf by Adolf HitlerThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Holy Bible by Anonymous1491 by Charles C. MannThe Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes
Worst historical non-fiction
40 books — 41 voters
Secondhand Time by Svetlana AlexievichIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumLenin's Tomb by David RemnickCommand and Control by Eric SchlosserThe Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Cold War (nonfiction)
364 books — 106 voters

L.A. Confidential by James EllroyRed Harvest by Dashiell HammettThe Killer Inside Me by Jim ThompsonFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Best of the Pulps
381 books — 204 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyTracks by Louise ErdrichThe Bingo Palace by Louise ErdrichLove Medicine by Louise ErdrichThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Native American Fiction
838 books — 640 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieThe Big Nowhere by James EllroyA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,259 books — 2,432 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleySense and Sensibility by Jane AustenEmma by Jane AustenPersuasion by Jane Austen
Best Books of the Decade: 1810s
141 books — 326 voters
Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Age of Reason by Thomas PaineElective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von GoethePoems in Two Volumes by William WordsworthLogic by Immanuel Kant
Best Books of the Decade: 1800s.
103 books — 94 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
1,210 books — 961 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionOut of Africa by Isak DinesenThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiPilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Memoirs by Women
3,074 books — 3,095 voters

Watchmen by Alan             MooreThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonBatman by Frank MillerBatman by Alan             MooreKingdom Come by Mark Waid
Superhero Fiction
846 books — 1,240 voters
1984 by George OrwellNight by Elie WieselFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Thought Provoking
2,895 books — 1,543 voters


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