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Reconstruction by Eric FonerBlack Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du BoisReconstruction after the Civil War by John Hope FranklinWest from Appomattox by Heather Cox RichardsonReconstruction by Frederick Douglass
Reconstruction: How the Peace was Lost
88 books — 3 voters
Summer of Blood by Dan JonesThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman1453 by Roger CrowleyHow the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
Best Medieval History Books
833 books — 395 voters

Big Hair and Plastic Grass by Dan EpsteinStars and Strikes by Dan EpsteinHairs vs. Squares by Ed GruverBaseball's Last Dynasty by Bruce MarkusenWhen the Bucs Won It All by Bill Ranier
Loud Uniforms and Fake Grass: '70s Baseball
85 books — 7 voters
The War Lovers by Evan ThomasThe True Flag by Stephen KinzerThe Statesman and the Storyteller by Mark ZwonitzerTo the Person Sitting in Darkness by Mark TwainThe Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
American Empire: Imperialist vs Anti-Imperialist
95 books — 18 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyMacbeth by William Shakespeare
The Best Antiheroes
701 books — 584 voters
The Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanDeclare by Tim PowersStrange Itineraries by Tim PowersThe Folk of the Air by Peter S. BeagleMoonheart by Charles de Lint
Best Urban Fantasy STAND-ALONE Novels
104 books — 237 voters

Clemente by David MaranissVeeck As In Wreck by Bill VeeckBall Four by Jim BoutonMoneyball by Michael LewisShoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
Best Baseball Books
755 books — 658 voters
The Lords of the Realm by John HelyarSplit Season by Jeff KatzA Great and Glorious Game by David HalberstamMoneyball by Michael LewisPlaying Around; The Million-Dollar Infield Goes to Florida by Donald Hall
Baseball: Behind the Diamond
67 books — 11 voters

Tales of War by Lord DunsanyJohnny Got His Gun by Dalton TrumboJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Best World War I Fiction
152 books — 184 voters
Last Call by Tim PowersNight Watch by Sergei LukyanenkoPerdido Street Station by China MiévilleTea with the Black Dragon by R.A. MacAvoy
Best Urban Fantasy SERIES
647 books — 3,751 voters