John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best History Books
86th out of 3,769 books — 3,799 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
178th out of 1,834 books — 2,225 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Books Ever
9929th out of 76,975 books — 286,478 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyNight by Elie Wiesel
My Country, the Enemy
66th out of 394 books — 341 voters

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
388th out of 2,164 books — 2,435 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.1984 by George OrwellThe Trigger by Tim Butcher
Absurdity of War
17th out of 124 books — 52 voters

The Hunt for Red October by Tom ClancyMarch by Geraldine BrooksLight in August by William FaulknerMarch by John LewisThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Best Books with a Month in the Title
33rd out of 602 books — 70 voters
America's Great Depression by Murray N. RothbardAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard BailynThe Real Lincoln by Thomas J. DiLorenzoThe March of Folly by Barbara W. Tuchman
Libertarian Guide to American History (fiction and nonfiction)
5th out of 80 books — 42 voters

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThese Truths by Jill LeporeThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanSPQR by Mary BeardThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Women Historians
23rd out of 235 books — 30 voters
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanJohn Adams by David McCulloughNicholas And Alexandra by Robert K. MassieThe Histories by HerodotusBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
The Big Non-fiction
34th out of 192 books — 87 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingNight by Elie Wiesel
Best Nonfiction Books of the 20th Century
110th out of 465 books — 117 voters
March by John LewisMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisThe Hunt for Red October by Tom ClancyTuesday by David WiesnerThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Months or Days in the Book Title
78th out of 735 books — 42 voters

Night by Elie WieselThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonPostwar by Tony JudtUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Best Popular History Books on Goodreads
75th out of 299 books — 60 voters
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas AdamsThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Hunt for Red October by Tom ClancyNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Talisman by Stephen King
Best Books of 1984
112th out of 345 books — 160 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
1146th out of 6,236 books — 8,067 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
199th out of 469 books — 276 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienMatterhorn by Karl MarlantesDispatches by Michael HerrA Rumor of War by Philip CaputoThe Quiet American by Graham Greene
Best Literature About the Vietnam War
115th out of 331 books — 638 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerMatilda by Roald DahlBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
1286th out of 2,259 books — 2,432 voters

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonHellhound on His Trail by Hampton SidesIn the Garden of Beasts by Erik LarsonBefore the Storm by Rick PerlsteinThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
History books my friends suggest
19th out of 91 books — 7 voters
1421 by Gavin Menzies1434 by Gavin MenziesThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Holy Bible by AnonymousMein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Worst historical non-fiction
17th out of 40 books — 41 voters

The Paris Apartment by Lucy FoleyA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesMalibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferNext Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
52 Book Club 2023: #7 A City Or Country Name In The Title
124th out of 821 books — 140 voters
Between Past and Future by Hannah ArendtThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyMiddlemarch by George EliotRomantic Outlaws by Charlotte GordonThe Analysis of the Self by Heinz Kohut
The Laws of Human Nature - Bibliography
10th out of 84 books — 2 voters

Understanding Human Nature by Alfred AdlerThe Nature of Prejudice by Gordon W. AllportThe Birth of Intersubjectivity by Massimo AmmanitiBetween Past and Future by Hannah ArendtBodily Communication by Michael Argyle
The Laws of Human Nature - Robert Greene [Selected Bibliography]
79th out of 85 books — 1 voter
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondMath Jokes by Ralph LaneThe Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. FeynmanThe Lessons of History by Will DurantThe Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Polymath's Library
186th out of 257 books — 69 voters

A Cry from the Heart by William SearsHoly Horrors by James A. HaughtSix Years with God by Jeannie MillsThe Cross and the Crescent by Malcolm BillingsThe Sword & the Scimitar by Ernle Bradford
Holy Horrors Bibliography
53rd out of 62 books — 2 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAnxious People by Fredrik BackmanLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
52 Book Club 2022: #45 A Book With Illustrated People On Cover
361st out of 414 books — 75 voters

The Future of War by Lawrence FreedmanEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneThe Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael PillsburyAmerican Nations by Colin WoodardGhost Fleet by P.W. Singer
Delta(+) Kurultai Books
12th out of 14 books — 1 voter
Exodus by Leon UrisThe Art of War by Sun TzuA Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel AllendeSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Books to read in times of war
59th out of 65 books — 8 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienHuế 1968 by Mark BowdenWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreThe Full Circle for Mick by Michael G. KramerThe Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh
Military History
911th out of 927 books — 395 voters
El manifiesto comunista by Karl MarxIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingEl queso y los gusanos by Carlo Ginzburg
Los demasiados libros
13th out of 200 books — 5 voters

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