Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/4223940-lance-polin">Lance Polin</a> (268 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lance Polin (268 Lists)

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

1,273 books — 382 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)

81 books — 30 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)

61 books — 32 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

40 books — 41 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)

357 books — 104 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)

248 books — 135 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)

420 books — 172 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

380 books — 202 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

837 books — 639 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

35 books — 26 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)

711 books — 175 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

57 books — 27 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)

1,348 books — 637 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

50 Books That Will Change Your Life - Chapters/Indigo

441 books — 1,190 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,257 books — 2,434 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Emma by Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Best Books of the Decade: 1810s

141 books — 324 voters

Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poems in Two Volumes by William Wordsworth

Logic by Immanuel Kant

Best Books of the Decade: 1800s.

103 books — 94 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

Best of 21st Century Non-fiction

1,207 books — 952 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Memoirs by Women

3,015 books — 3,030 voters

Watchmen by Alan Moore

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Batman by Frank Miller

Batman by Alan Moore

Kingdom Come by Mark Waid

Superhero Fiction

841 books — 1,226 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Night by Elie Wiesel

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The 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 Dostoevsky

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Heart 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 Bryson

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Interesting and Readable Nonfiction

4,046 books — 2,043 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)

1,154 books — 2,272 voters

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson

A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan

The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark

Take Me Somewhere I've Never Been Before

1,004 books — 423 voters

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

Nobel Prize For Literature Award Winners

55 books — 7 voters

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian

The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa

Red Sorghum by Mo Yan

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

favorite books by nobel writers in the 2000s

115 books — 10 voters

The Tale of the Unknown Island by José Saramago

Blindness by José Saramago

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago

Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago

The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago

Best of José Saramago

19 books — 84 voters

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