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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Dave Van Es (16 Lists)



The Kill Artist by Daniel SilvaAbsolute Power by David BaldacciThe Camel Club by David BaldacciThe Innocent by David Baldacci
Best Spy Novels
1,413 books — 2,521 voters
Map of Bones by James Rollins1491 by Charles C. MannThe Amber Room by Steve BerrySandstorm by James RollinsThe Doomsday Key by James Rollins
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,373 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Best by African Authors
410 books — 224 voters
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
British Children's Fantasy
103 books — 24 voters

The Sword of Attila by Michael Curtis FordThe Ten Thousand by Michael Curtis FordGods and Legions by Michael Curtis FordThe Last King by Michael Curtis Ford
Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the past 45 yrs
1,131 books — 1,168 voters
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
Best South Slavic Literature
364 books — 309 voters

The History of the Church by EusebiusFox's Book of Martyrs by John FoxeAnte-Nicene Fathers, 10 Vols by Alexander RobertsNicene and Post-Nicene Fathers by Alexander RobertsThe Story of Christianity by Justo L. González
History of Christianity
293 books — 67 voters
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoWorld Without End by Ken FollettThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Best Historical Fiction
7,892 books — 26,298 voters

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrieEndurance by Alfred LansingA Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan
Awesome Historical Reads - Fiction & Non-Fiction
84 books — 31 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollDracula by Bram StokerThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,752 books — 6,906 voters

Macbeth by William ShakespeareDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Pilgrim's Progress by John BunyanThe Holy Bible by AnonymousPerrault's Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 706 voters
Foxe's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 545 voters

The History of the Church by EusebiusCity of God by Augustine of HippoThe Later Roman Empire by Ammianus Marcellinus
Best Books 4th Century
56 books — 105 voters
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonReflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund BurkeMatthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible by Matthew Henry
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,010 voters

The Secret History by ProcopiusThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonThe Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian by Michael MaasByzantium by John Julius NorwichSailing from Byzantium by Colin Wells
Books on the Later Roman Empire
166 books — 45 voters
Watership Down by Richard AdamsESV Study Bible by AnonymousThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Books I will, God willing, read in 2012
110 books — 25 voters