The Unknown Industrial Prisoner by David  IrelandPower Without Glory by Frank J. HardyTo the Islands by Randolph StowWake in Fright by Kenneth CookThe Slow Natives by Thea Astley
The Australian Collection
99 books — 24 voters
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner by David  IrelandTirra Lirra by the River by Jessica AndersonThe Glass Canoe by David  IrelandTo the Islands by Randolph StowThe Slow Natives by Thea Astley
The Miles Franklin Literary Award
95 books — 47 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCloud Atlas by David MitchellLost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,239 books — 10,012 voters
Seahenge by Francis PryorAethelstan by Sarah FootThe Taste of War by Lizzie CollinghamEurope's Tragedy by Peter H. WilsonMao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter
Understanding History
260 books — 105 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueFrom Here to Eternity by James  JonesCatch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best War Novels
1,658 books — 1,376 voters
Going to the Wars by Charles CarltonGod's Fury, England's Fire by Michael BraddickA Brief History of the Tudor Age by Jasper RidleyThis Seat of Mars by Charles CarltonCavaliers and Roundheads by Christopher Hibbert
British Civil Wars
54 books — 14 voters

A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh FermorBetween the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh FermorFrom the Holy Mountain by William DalrympleThe Marsh Arabs by Wilfred ThesigerThe Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Best Travel Writing
316 books — 217 voters
Going to the Wars by Charles CarltonMao's Great Famine by Frank DikötterThe Thirty Years War by Peter H. WilsonGod's Fury, England's Fire by Michael BraddickThe Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans
Best History Books
3,651 books — 3,676 voters

Going to the Wars by Charles CarltonGod's Fury, England's Fire by Michael BraddickA Brief History of the Tudor Age by Jasper RidleyThis Seat of Mars by Charles CarltonCavaliers and Roundheads by Christopher Hibbert
The English Civil Wars 1640 - 1660
92 books — 35 voters
1984 by George Orwell
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,282 voters