Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/4223940-lance-polin">Lance Polin</a> (275 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lance Polin (275 Lists)

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

251 books — 923 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

57 books — 2 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)

53 books — 6 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

17 books — 11 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)

24 books — 13 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)

170 books — 16 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

1,281 books — 434 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)

82 books — 31 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)

62 books — 33 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)

364 books — 106 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 — 141 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)

419 books — 171 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

381 books — 204 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

838 books — 640 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 — 185 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)

1,353 books — 644 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

451 books — 1,199 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

2,259 books — 2,432 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 — 326 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

1,210 books — 961 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

3,074 books — 3,095 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

846 books — 1,240 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

2,895 books — 1,543 voters

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