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The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha GlennyMy War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,278 books — 2,630 voters
The Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Troubles by Tim Pat CooganThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonPaddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847 by Thomas Gallagher
Best History Books
4,107 books — 4,726 voters

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,981 books — 3,670 voters
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,469 books — 5,187 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerKitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,429 books — 8,213 voters
A Small Corner of Hell by Anna PolitkovskayaDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerMeasuring America by Andro LinklaterGalileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
Non-fiction - Something for Everyone
4,172 books — 1,596 voters

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayPersuasion by Jane AustenDune by Frank HerbertLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
33,020 books — 125,264 voters