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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh by Vincent van GoghThe Story of Art by E.H. GombrichThe Shock of the New by Robert HughesThe Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving StoneThe Judgment of Paris by Ross King
Best Art and Art History Books
709 books — 310 voters
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir1453 by Roger Crowley
Best Medieval History Books
799 books — 310 voters

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyA Place of Greater Safety by Hilary MantelMarie Antoinette by Antonia FraserMadame Tussaud by Michelle    Moran
The French Revolution
227 books — 286 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood1984 by George OrwellThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Post-Trump Big Questions Canon
518 books — 270 voters
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyMystic River by Dennis LehaneThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodJohnny Tremain by Esther Forbes1776 by David McCullough
Boston Books
327 books — 269 voters

Ghost Wars by Steve CollThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightDiplomacy by Henry KissingerLegacy of Ashes by Tim WeinerThe Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
American Foreign Policy
457 books — 267 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingLean In by Sheryl SandbergThe Reason I Jump by Naoki HigashidaDrift by Rachel Maddow
Books Rec'd By The Daily Show
331 books — 267 voters

The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith Jr.Jesus the Christ by James E. TalmageThe Holy Bible by AnonymousStanding for Something by Gordon B. HinckleyThe Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball
Best LDS non-fiction
228 books — 264 voters
The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Aeneid by VirgilLord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell
About the Trojan War
271 books — 257 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Fictitious Africa
523 books — 253 voters
Steve Jobs by Walter IsaacsonShoe Dog by Phil KnightElon Musk by Ashlee VanceThe Lean Startup by Eric RiesThe Everything Store by Brad Stone
Business Biographies and Memoirs
226 books — 252 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoOne Hot Italian Summer by Karina HalleThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Reading Italy
442 books — 234 voters
A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnAmerica (The Book) by Jon   StewartMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling1776 by David McCullough
The Daily Show Reading Club
336 books — 229 voters

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer102 Minutes by Jim DwyerThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightThe Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFedeThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
9/11 Related
245 books — 220 voters
Clara Bow by David StennMy Autobiography by Charles ChaplinMe by Katharine HepburnFalling Waters by Gary D. HenryLulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
Best of Old Hollywood
465 books — 219 voters

A Night to Remember by Walter LordTitanic by Don  LynchThe Night Lives On by Walter LordThe Discovery of the Titanic by Robert D. BallardVoyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson White
Best Titanic Books
164 books — 218 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckWalden by Henry David Thoreau
A Journey Through Literary America
150 books — 213 voters

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe White Queen by Philippa GregoryThe Constant Princess by Philippa GregoryThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryNefertiti by Michelle    Moran
Royal Fiction
501 books — 211 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankA Writer's Diary by Virginia WoolfThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia PlathA Woman in Berlin by AnonymousIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Women's Journals and Diaries in History
468 books — 210 voters

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à KempisCatechism of the Catholic Church by Catholic ChurchThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisStory of a Soul by Thérèse of LisieuxIntroduction to the Devout Life by Francis de Sales
Books for Catholics
672 books — 208 voters
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassDreams from My Father by Barack ObamaBlack Boy by Richard Wright
African American Lives
453 books — 199 voters

Night by Elie WieselThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneMaus I by Art Spiegelman
Essential Books on the Holocaust
195 books — 192 voters
West with the Night by Beryl MarkhamOut of Africa by Isak DinesenMy Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-NéelBorn Free by Joy AdamsonA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird
Trailblazing Women Adventurers
535 books — 178 voters

Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan BurroughLiar's Poker by Michael   LewisThe Big Short by Michael   LewisWhen Genius Failed by Roger LowensteinToo Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Business History
432 books — 171 voters
Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyDarwin's Black Box by Michael J. BeheDate Runner by Snapshot SystemsThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiLife and Death in the Andes by Kim MacQuarrie
Interesting Non-Fiction Books
453 books — 135 voters

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