The Big Books of Fall

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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
102 books — 26 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
86 books — 48 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...
12,245 books — 11,529 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
268 books — 108 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
1,718 books — 1,469 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
327 books — 253 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
4,086 books — 4,579 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
97 books — 38 voters
1984 by George Orwell
The Most Influential Books
1,499 books — 5,328 voters