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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 — 25 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
84 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...
12,234 books — 11,473 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
267 books — 107 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
1,720 books — 1,468 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
56 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
326 books — 252 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
4,047 books — 4,627 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
95 books — 36 voters
1984 by George Orwell
The Most Influential Books
1,497 books — 5,309 voters