Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/5162389-mac">Mac</a> (49 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Mac (49 Lists)

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

Triangle by David von Drehle

Krakatoa by Simon Winchester

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Fire in the Grove by John C. Esposito

Books about Horrible Tragedies or Disasters

264 books — 62 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Making Rounds with Oscar by David Dosa

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Books Written by Physicians

198 books — 87 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Grendel by John Gardner

Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser

Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser

The anti-hero in fiction

344 books — 299 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' by William Hope Hodgson

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James

The best gothic novels, ghost stories and early horror 1764-1937

369 books — 742 voters

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1984 by George Orwell

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore

Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,715 books — 124,339 voters

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,270 books — 8,165 voters

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Invisible Allies by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov

Graphite by Varlam Shalamov

Russian Social History

300 books — 87 voters

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

The Night Lives On by Walter Lord

Titanic Survivor by Violet Jessop

Titanic - A Survivor's Story by Archibald Gracie

Best Titanic Books

190 books — 244 voters

Hell in a Very Small Place by Bernard B. Fall

The French Foreign Legion by Douglas Boyd

Legion of the Lost by Jaime Salazar

Legionnaire by Simon Murray

The French Foreign Legion - la Légion étrangère

48 books — 34 voters

The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer

Hiroshima by John Hersey

A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan

The Day Man Lost by The Pacific War Research So...

The Good Man of Nanking by John Rabe

Best World War II History (nonfiction)

704 books — 522 voters

The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream by G.C. Edmondson

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Timeline by Michael Crichton

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Time and Again by Jack Finney

Best Time Travel Fiction

2,172 books — 5,455 voters

Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell

Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell

Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser

Best Historical Fiction

7,990 books — 26,577 voters

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Best Young Adult Books

13,251 books — 80,529 voters

Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

Extreme Classics: National Geographic's 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

101 books — 264 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

Adolf Hitler by Spike Milligan

Best Humor Writing

871 books — 981 voters

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

Shadow of a Broken Man by George C. Chesbro

Fletch by Gregory McDonald

Kennedy for the Defense by George V. Higgins

Burglars Can't Be Choosers by Lawrence Block

Favorite Mystery Series

420 books — 137 voters

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1984 by George Orwell

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,874 books — 49,840 voters

Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown

Mindswap by Robert Sheckley

The Asutra by Jack Vance

The Anome by Jack Vance

The Brave Free Men by Jack Vance

Most Under-rated Science Fiction

2,162 books — 2,482 voters

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

Alexander Dolgun's story by Alexander Dolgun

The Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis

Best Russian History Books

590 books — 424 voters

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer

Alexander Dolgun's story by Alexander Dolgun

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

Best Nonfiction Books About Horrifying Events

521 books — 190 voters

A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan

The First and the Last by Adolf Galland

Given Up for Dead by Bill Sloan

Pacific Alamo by John Wukovits

Bataan by John W. Whitman

Military History

928 books — 396 voters

Dewey by Vicki Myron

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot

The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory

Making Rounds with Oscar by David Dosa

Cat by B. Kliban

Great Cat Books

1,606 books — 971 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Day after Tomorrow by Mack Reynolds

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

4,012 books — 26,697 voters

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books set on or about Mars

221 books — 347 voters

The Fallible Fiend by L. Sprague de Camp

The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream by G.C. Edmondson

The Mathematics of Magic by L. Sprague de Camp

The Secret People by John Wyndham

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Fantasy Books Set in Two Worlds

670 books — 632 voters

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Best Russian Literature

523 books — 2,309 voters

Night by Elie Wiesel

Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

Well-Written Holocaust Books

927 books — 3,009 voters

Spandau by Albert Speer

Adolf Hitler by Spike Milligan

'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?' by Spike Milligan

Night by Elie Wiesel

World War II Memoirs

367 books — 191 voters

A Study in Terror by Ellery Queen

The Mycroft Memoranda, A Novel. by Ray Walsh

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Edward B. Hanna

Best Sherlock Holmes Vs. Jack The Ripper Fiction

32 books — 34 voters

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

The Arabian Nights by Anonymous

Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

1,215 books — 70 voters

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