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
1,273 books — 382 voters

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund  MorrisTheodore Rex by Edmund  MorrisThe River of Doubt by Candice MillardMornings on Horseback by David McCulloughColonel Roosevelt by Edmund  Morris
Theodore Roosevelt Books (nonfiction)
61 books — 32 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)
357 books — 104 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
380 books — 202 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
837 books — 639 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Stand by Stephen  KingThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Creepiest Conspiracy Theory Books
105 books — 19 voters

None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary AllenRule by Secrecy by Jim MarrsAlien Agenda by Jim MarrsThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs
conspiracy theories
115 books — 21 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
2,257 books — 2,434 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 — 324 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
1,207 books — 952 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
3,015 books — 3,030 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
841 books — 1,226 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
2,864 books — 1,488 voters
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor DostoevskyAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Books that Changed the Way You View Life
10,494 books — 5,748 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteSapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,046 books — 2,043 voters

The Tale of the Unknown Island by José SaramagoBlindness by José SaramagoThe Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José SaramagoBaltasar and Blimunda by José SaramagoThe History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago
Best of José Saramago
19 books — 84 voters


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