The Foreign Correspondent by Alan FurstNight Soldiers by Alan FurstDark Star by Alan FurstThe Russia House by John le CarréThe Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Literary Spy Stories
200 books — 223 voters

The Histories by HerodotusPeter the Great by Robert K. MassieThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynBloodlands by Timothy Snyder
Best History Books
3,693 books — 3,731 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Red and the Black by StendhalThe Charterhouse of Parma by StendhalThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best French Literature
871 books — 1,554 voters

Ringan Gilhaize by John Galt
Scottish Lost Treasures
16 books — 2 voters
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary MantelBurr by Gore VidalLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryExodus by Leon UrisThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Literary Historical Fiction
1,130 books — 1,029 voters

The Aeneid, Volume 1 by VirgilThe Song of Roland by UnknownThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Sagas of Icelanders by Jane SmileyIliad, Books 1–12 by Homer
World's Greatest Epics
204 books — 134 voters
The Aeneid by VirgilJoan of Arc by Mark TwainThe Nibelungenlied by UnknownSaint Joan by George Bernard ShawThe Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault
Amazons, Valkyries, and Warrior Women
692 books — 532 voters

Billy Bathgate by E.L. DoctorowCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyShella by Andrew VachssPretty Boy Floyd by Larry McMurtryNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Best in Prose: High Caliber Crime
142 books — 68 voters
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,198 books — 68,031 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Iliad by HomerLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books
100 books — 311 voters
An American Spy by Olen SteinhauerThe Russia House by John le CarréThe Bridge of Sighs by Olen SteinhauerThe Confession by Olen Steinhauer36 Yalta Boulevard by Olen Steinhauer
Post-WW2 Espionage and Crime Fiction
108 books — 20 voters

Anna Karenina by Tom StoppardVoyage by Tom StoppardShipwreck by Tom StoppardSalvage by Tom StoppardThe Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
Best of Tom Stoppard
66 books — 4 voters
Macbeth by William ShakespeareKing Hereafter by Dorothy DunnettMacbeth the King by Nigel TranterMacbeth (English National Opera Guides, 41) by Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth
41 books — 14 voters

The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeNight Soldiers by Alan FurstMila 18 by Leon UrisThe Caine Mutiny by Herman WoukExodus by Leon Uris
WWII Historic Fiction
1,404 books — 1,526 voters
The Secret Agent by Joseph ConradThe Sea Wolf by Jack LondonThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyLord Jim by Joseph ConradThe Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
465 books — 855 voters

Schindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyCatch-22 by Joseph HellerCrabwalk by Günter GrassBonhoeffer by Eric MetaxasThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
A WWII Reading List
718 books — 379 voters
Mission to Paris by Alan FurstPerfume by Patrick SüskindA Place of Greater Safety by Hilary MantelPure by Andrew  Miller
Paris: historical novels set in Paris
58 books — 12 voters

Ice Road by Gillian SlovoThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio BassaniWarlight by Michael OndaatjeCrabwalk by Günter GrassMila 18 by Leon Uris
Best WWII Fiction and Biography
697 books — 579 voters
The Monk by Matthew Gregory LewisThe Monk and the Hangman's Daughter by Ambrose BierceThe Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneThe End of the Affair by Graham GreeneThe Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Catholic Fiction
543 books — 426 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTis Pity She's a Whore by Derek RoperCloud Nine by James M. CainThe Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Taboo Reads
1,776 books — 2,637 voters
August 1914 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueBirdsong by Sebastian Faulks
WWI: The Great War (Historical Fiction)
456 books — 389 voters


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