Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/930189-avis-black">Avis Black</a> (116 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Avis Black (116 Lists)

Journal of Arnold Bennett by Arnold Bennett

Story of My Childhood Written for My Children by Alice Mendenhall George

Enter a Child by Dormer Creston

The Retreat From Serbia Through Montenegro and Albania by Olive M. Aldridge

Old Virginia days and ways; reminiscences of Mrs. Sally McCar... by Sally McCarty Pleasants

Good But Ridiculously Obscure Memoirs and Autobiographies With Only 1 Rating

61 books — 1 voter

Fetched-Up Yankee by Lewis Hill

Daughter of the Gold Rush by Klondy Nelson

The Sugarbag Years by Tony Simpson

A Diary Kept By Mrs. R. C. Germon, At Lucknow, Between The Mo... by Maria Germon

Recollections of the Rebel Invasion and One Woman's Experienc... by Fannie J. Buehler

Good but Obscure Memoirs and Autobiographies With at Least 5 but Under 10 Ratings

66 books — 2 voters

Hard Times by Studs Terkel

Free for All by Don Borchert

The Job by Steve Osborne

House Rules by Rachel Sontag

The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald

Good Memoirs and Autobiographies with 1,000 to 3,000 Ratings

54 books — 1 voter

I Married the Klondike by Laura Beatrice Berton

Clementine in the Kitchen by Samuel V. Chamberlain

Adventures in Two Worlds by A.J. Cronin

No Better Place to Die by Peter Cozzens

Education of a Princess a Memoir by Marie, Grand Duchess of R... by Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia

Undervalued Nonfiction

127 books — 3 voters

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Last Lion by William Manchester

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

The Proud Tower by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Face of Battle by John Keegan

770 books — 604 voters

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald

Pioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Trials of the Earth by Mary Mann Hamilton

The Best American Memoirs of Life Before 1940

101 books — 2 voters

Wait for Me! by Deborah Mitford

A Life of Contrasts by Diana Mitford Mosley

Diana Mosley by Anne de Courcy

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

Focus On The Mitford Girls

62 books — 29 voters

This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay

90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper

Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay

Sickened by Julie Gregory

Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition by Temple Grandin

Compelling Medical Memoirs

386 books — 186 voters

One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry by John H. Worsham

A Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883 by Rose Pender

First Childhood by Lord Berners

Three Years in the Sixth Corps by George Thomas Stevens

Bad Smoke, Good Smoke by John R. Erickson

Good Memoirs and Autobiographies With at Least 15 but Under 40 Ratings

72 books — 2 voters

How to Photograph Absolutely Everything by Tom Ang

Overview by Benjamin Grant

Digital Photography Masterclass by Tom Ang

Crowns by Michael Cunningham

Lost Chicago by David Garrard Lowe

Exceptional Photography Books*

568 books — 197 voters

Andy Goldsworthy by Andy Goldsworthy

The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe

From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe

Une Semaine de Bonté by Max Ernst

Civilisation by Kenneth M. Clark

Best Art and Art History Books

806 books — 342 voters

The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee

Washington by Ron Chernow

The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro

Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper

History Published in Decade: 2010s

324 books — 27 voters

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin

Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado

History Published in Decade: 2000s

149 books — 6 voters

Ask Not by Maureen Callahan

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back by Miles A. Copeland III

General Grant and the Verdict of History by Frank P. Varney

History Published in Decade: 2020s

178 books — 46 voters

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

History Published in Decade: 1990s

205 books — 12 voters

Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis

With the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson

The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie

History Published in Decade: 1980s

135 books — 12 voters

The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie

The Last Lion by William Manchester

The Last Lion by William Manchester

Bette & Joan by Shaun Considine

Biography Published in Decade: 1980s

128 books — 6 voters

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Washington by Ron Chernow

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

Titan by Ron Chernow

The Best American Historical Biographies of All Time

247 books — 132 voters

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides

Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Biography Published in Decade: 2000s

121 books — 7 voters

Washington by Ron Chernow

My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf

The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro

Hell's Princess by Harold Schechter

Trouble Boys by Bob Mehr

Biography Published in Decade: 2010s

208 books — 13 voters

Ask Not by Maureen Callahan

Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis

A Fade of Light by Nate Fakes

General Grant and the Verdict of History by Frank P. Varney

Keep on Believin’ by Thomas M Kitts

Biography Published in Decade: 2020s

76 books — 30 voters

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Washington by Ron Chernow

Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

Male Biographies: Biographies of Men

378 books — 29 voters

Anything for a Hit by Dorothy Carvello

When All the World Was Young by Barbara Holland

Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

While You're Here, Doc by Bradford B. Brown

Letters from Iceland by W.H. Auden

Good Memoirs and Autobiographies With 100 to 299 Ratings

88 books — 1 voter

Yankee Summer by Lewis Hill

A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English G... by John Zephaniah Holwell

Fifty Years' Observations of Men and Events, Civil and Military by Erasmus Darwin Keyes

A Soldier of the Sky by George F. Campbell

A Country School by Bob Artley

Good But Insanely Obscure Memoirs and Autobiographies With Only 2 Ratings

54 books — 2 voters

This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay

Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern

The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee

Washington by Ron Chernow

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2010s

397 books — 87 voters

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Open by Andre Agassi

Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis

A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa

Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2000s

370 books — 41 voters

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Neither Here nor There by Bill Bryson

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden

Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1990s

306 books — 13 voters

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

Boy by Roald Dahl

Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1980s

211 books — 22 voters

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman

Fear and Loathing by Hunter S. Thompson

Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1970s

290 books — 26 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson

Games People Play by Eric Berne

Born Free by Joy Adamson

Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1960s

169 books — 19 voters

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