2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Avis Black (111 Lists)



Wait for Me! by Deborah MitfordA Life of Contrasts by Diana Mitford MosleyDiana Mosley by Anne de CourcyThe Pursuit of Love by Nancy MitfordLove in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Focus On The Mitford Girls
62 books — 29 voters
This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay90 Minutes in Heaven by Don PiperTwas the Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam KaySickened by Julie GregoryThinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition by Temple Grandin
Compelling Medical Memoirs
371 books — 161 voters

Innocence Under the Elms by Louise Dickinson RichFirst Childhood by Lord BernersBad Smoke, Good Smoke by John R. EricksonPanhandle Cowboy by John R. EricksonTales of a Rat-Hunting Man by D. Brian Plummer
Good Memoirs and Autobiographies With at Least 15 but Under 40 Ratings
53 books — 1 voter
How to Photograph Absolutely Everything by Tom AngOverview by Benjamin GrantDigital Photography Masterclass by Tom AngCrowns by Michael CunninghamLost Chicago by David Garrard Lowe
Exceptional Photography Books*
561 books — 196 voters

Andy Goldsworthy by Andy GoldsworthyThe Painted Word by Tom WolfeFrom Bauhaus to Our House by Tom WolfeUne Semaine de Bonté by Max ErnstCivilisation by Kenneth M. Clark
Best Art and Art History Books
773 books — 312 voters
The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo LeeWashington by Ron ChernowThe Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. GraffThe Passage of Power by Robert A. CaroUnfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper
History Published in Decade: 2010s
322 books — 26 voters

Alexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowGenghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack WeatherfordTheodore Rex by Edmund MorrisMao's Last Dancer by Li CunxinMiracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado
History Published in Decade: 2000s
148 books — 6 voters
Ask Not by Maureen CallahanTwo Steps Forward, One Step Back by Miles Copeland IIIGeneral Grant and the Verdict of History by Frank P. Varney
History Published in Decade: 2020s
152 books — 24 voters

Wild Swans by Jung ChangThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenStalingrad by Antony BeevorTitan by Ron Chernow
History Published in Decade: 1990s
204 books — 11 voters
Liar's Poker by Michael LewisWith the Old Breed by Eugene B. SledgeBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe Path to Power by Robert A. CaroPeter the Great by Robert K. Massie
History Published in Decade: 1980s
134 books — 7 voters

The Path to Power by Robert A. CaroPeter the Great by Robert K. MassieThe Last Lion by William ManchesterThe Last Lion by William ManchesterBette & Joan by Shaun Considine
Biography Published in Decade: 1980s
128 books — 6 voters
Alexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowWashington by Ron ChernowThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisTheodore Rex by Edmund MorrisTitan by Ron Chernow
The Best American Historical Biographies of All Time
246 books — 133 voters

Alexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowTheodore Rex by Edmund MorrisMaster of the Senate by Robert A. CaroBlood and Thunder by Hampton SidesHenry VIII by Alison Weir
Biography Published in Decade: 2000s
121 books — 7 voters
Washington by Ron ChernowMy Friend Dahmer by Derf BackderfThe Passage of Power by Robert A. CaroHell's Princess by Harold SchechterThe Admirals by Walter R. Borneman
Biography Published in Decade: 2010s
207 books — 12 voters

Ask Not by Maureen CallahanFlung Out of Space by Grace EllisA Fade of Light by Nate FakesGeneral Grant and the Verdict of History by Frank P. VarneyKeep on Believin’ by Thomas M Kitts
Biography Published in Decade: 2020s
72 books — 8 voters
Alexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowWashington by Ron ChernowMeans of Ascent by Robert A. CaroThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisTheodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Male Biographies: Biographies of Men
377 books — 28 voters

Last Places by Lawrence MillmanAnything for a Hit by Dorothy CarvelloWhen All the World Was Young by Barbara HollandItalian Days by Barbara Grizzuti HarrisonLetters from Iceland by W.H. Auden
Good Memoirs and Autobiographies With 100 to 299 Ratings
64 books — 1 voter
Yankee Summer by Lewis HillA Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English G... by John Zephaniah HolwellFifty Years' Observations of Men and Events, Civil and Military by Erasmus Darwin KeyesA Soldier of the Sky by George F. CampbellA Country School by Bob Artley
Good But Insanely Obscure Memoirs and Autobiographies With Only 1 or 2 Ratings
72 books — 1 voter

Ask Not by Maureen CallahanFatty Fatty Boom Boom by Rabia ChaudryMonstrous by Sarah MyerOur Little Secret by Emily CarringtonChartwell Manor by Glenn Head
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2020s
687 books — 115 voters
This is Going to Hurt by Adam KaySh*t My Dad Says by Justin HalpernThe Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo LeeWashington by Ron ChernowGender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2010s
378 books — 80 voters

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainAlexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowOpen An Autobiography by Andre AgassiScar Tissue by Anthony KiedisA River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2000s
274 books — 28 voters
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtWild Swans by Jung ChangNeither Here nor There by Bill BrysonThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirBlack Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1990s
216 books — 12 voters

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleLiar's Poker by Michael LewisA Year in Provence by Peter MayleBoy by Roald Dahl
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1980s
176 books — 11 voters
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten BoomThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanFear and Loathing by Hunter S. ThompsonA Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1970s
249 books — 19 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanHell's Angels by Hunter S. ThompsonGames People Play by Eric BerneI'm OK - You're OK by Thomas A. Harris
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1960s
142 books — 9 voters
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald DurrellA Night to Remember by Walter LordThe Longest Day by Cornelius RyanHelmet for My Pillow by Robert LeckieCider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1950s
109 books — 9 voters

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithHiroshima by John HerseyBerlin Diary by William L. ShirerThe Plague and I by Betty MacDonaldMemories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1940s
92 books — 11 voters
Down and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude SteinMy Inventions by Nikola TeslaOne Pair Of Hands by Monica DickensAxel's Castle by Edmund Wilson
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1930s
77 books — 7 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfGoodbye to All That by Robert GravesQueen Victoria by Lytton StracheyThe Common Reader by Virginia WoolfScipio Africanus by B.H. Liddell Hart
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1920s
67 books — 6 voters
The Job by Steve OsborneA Thousand Naked Strangers by Kevin HazzardThis is Going to Hurt by Adam KayTrials of the Earth by Mary Mann HamiltonSixty Years a Nurse by Mary Hazard
A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs
818 books — 407 voters


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