Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain1984 by George OrwellWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Authors Ever
479 books — 234 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Most influential books under 100 pages
277 books — 962 voters

Washington by Ron Chernow1776 by David McCulloughThe Cause by Joseph J. EllisThe British Are Coming by Rick AtkinsonFounding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
U.S Revolution (nonfiction)
26 books — 15 voters
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)
171 books — 17 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
1,302 books — 520 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)
63 books — 34 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
42 books — 45 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)
373 books — 116 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
391 books — 213 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
842 books — 643 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
2,255 books — 2,435 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
142 books — 329 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
1,277 books — 1,245 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
3,261 books — 3,367 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
847 books — 1,243 voters


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