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Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Tudors by G.J. Meyer
Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
179 books — 114 voters
A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1491 by Charles C. Mann1776 by David McCulloughA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Understanding History
260 books — 105 voters

گم شده ای در مه by سید مرتضی مصطفویCapital by Karl MarxThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirPhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe Republic by Plato
Seminal Works (fiction and nonfiction)
96 books — 73 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeFifth Business by Robertson DaviesLives of Girls and Women by Alice MunroThe Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
Great Canadian Books of the [20th] Century I (fiction and nonfiction)
168 books — 63 voters

Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Big Short by Michael LewisNothing to Envy by Barbara DemickThe Tiger by John VaillantLast Call by Daniel Okrent
Christian Science Monitor's Best Nonfiction Books of 2010
33 books — 62 voters
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard BailynThe Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. WoodThe Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. WoodAmerican Scripture by Pauline MaierAmerican Colonies by Alan Taylor
Historiography of the American Revolution, 1607-1800 (nonfiction)
126 books — 61 voters

When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay PenmanTime and Chance by Sharon Kay PenmanDevil's Brood by Sharon Kay PenmanCaptive Queen by Alison WeirThe Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick
Best historical-fiction about Eleanor of Aquitaine
24 books — 51 voters
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison WeirInnocent Traitor by Alison WeirMarie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser and Alison Weir
45 books — 45 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Paper Bag Princess by Robert MunschThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Hockey Sweater by Roch CarrierThe Best of Robert Service by Robert W. Service
Great Canadian Books of the [20th] Century II (fiction and nonfiction)
106 books — 43 voters
Truman by David McCulloughThe Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. WhiteThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Best and the Brightest by David HalberstamMaster of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
The Washington Post's Best Political Nonfiction 2010
41 books — 36 voters

Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandJust Kids by Patti SmithWashington by Ron ChernowThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonProfiles in Leadership by Walter Isaacson
Los Angeles Times' 2010 Nonfiction Book Picks
48 books — 33 voters
1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers by Gerd Schultze-RhonhofGerman Philosophy 1760-1860 by Terry P. PinkardThe Germanic Hero by Brian MurdochThe Vanished Kingdom by James Charles RoyThe Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark
Wilson's Germanic History List
45 books — 30 voters

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithThe General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard KeynesAs Gods Among Men by Guido AlfaniThe Social Contract, a Discourse on the Origin of Inequality,... by Jean-Jacques RousseauDas Kapital by Karl Marx
Economic History
74 books — 25 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Ascent of Money by Niall FergusonEmpires of the Sea by Roger CrowleyA People's History of the World by Chris HarmanThe Bitter Road to Freedom by William I. Hitchcock
The Independent's "The Ten Best History Books"
10 books — 24 voters

Black Klansman by Ron StallworthThe Second Coming of the KKK by Linda GordonKlansville, U.S.A. by David CunninghamSuperman Versus The Ku Klux Klan by Rick BowersWomen of the Klan by Kathleen M. Blee
Books about the KKK (fiction and nonfiction)
150 books — 20 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonWhen Will There Be Good News? by Kate AtkinsonIn Pale Battalions by Robert GoddardThe Tenderness of Wolves by Stef PenneyNixonland by Rick Perlstein
Steven King's Favorites of 2008
11 books — 14 voters

A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis PetersOne Corpse Too Many by Ellis PetersThe Virgin in the Ice by Ellis PetersSt. Peter's Fair by Ellis PetersMonk's Hood by Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters (a/k/a Edith Pargeter)
89 books — 14 voters
Johnny Tremain by Esther ForbesTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Middle Grades American History Books
98 books — 12 voters

Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. WashingtonW.E.B. Du Bois by David Levering LewisSojourner Truth by Nell Irvin PainterAfricana by Kwame Anthony AppiahThurgood Marshall by Juan Williams
Black Caucus of the ALA Awards - Non-fiction
61 books — 12 voters
A. Lincoln by Ronald C. White Jr.The Lost City of Z by David GrannTears in the Darkness by Michael NormanThe Sisters of Sinai by Janet Martin SoskiceThe Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
Christian Science Monitor's Best Nonfiction Books of 2009
24 books — 11 voters

House of Rain by Craig ChildsAncient Peoples of the American Southwest by Stephen PlogIn Search of the Old Ones by David RobertsFinders Keepers by Craig ChildsSandstone Spine by David Roberts
Utah Archaeology Books
91 books — 9 voters
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithThe Odyssey by HomerThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliHow the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas CahillHard Times by Charles Dickens
AP European History/Western Civ Books
11 books — 9 voters

Burning Man by A. Leo NashThis Is Burning Man by Brian DohertyDrama in the Desert by Holly KreuterBurning Book by Jessica BruderThe Tribes of Burning Man by Steven T. Jones
Burning Man and related
17 books — 9 voters
The Story of My Misfortunes by Pierre AbélardThe Letters of Abélard and Héloïse by Pierre AbélardForbidden Fruit by Pierre AbélardHeloise & Abelard by James BurgeThe love sonnets of Abelard and Heloise by Pierre Abélard
Famous Literary Couples: Abelard and Héloïse
32 books — 8 voters

John Lennon by Philip NormanThe Post-American World by Fareed ZakariaOvertreated by Shannon BrownleeIn Defense of Food by Michael PollanGirls Like Us by Sheila Weller
Christian Science Monitor's Best Nonfiction Books of 2008
22 books — 7 voters
True Compass by Edward M. KennedyLast Lion by Peter S. CanellosFlannery by Brad GoochFollowing the Water by David M. CarrollThe Good Soldiers by David Finkel
The Boston Globe's Best Nonfiction 2009
8 books — 4 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Grace of Silence by Michele NorrisBrainwashed by Tom BurrellExtraordinary, Ordinary People by Condoleezza RiceThe Next Big Story by Soledad O'Brien
The Los Angeles Sentinel's 10 Best Black Nonfiction Books of 2010
10 books — 3 voters
Huey Long by T. Harry WilliamsThe Earl of Louisiana by A.J. LieblingKingfish by Richard D. White Jr.The Day Huey Long Was Shot by David ZinmanEarl K. Long by Michael L. Kurtz
Books about the Long Family of Louisiana
40 books — 2 voters

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