The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard RhodesCommand and Control by Eric SchlosserHiroshima by John HerseyAmerican Prometheus by Kai BirdVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
History of the Nuclear Age
2nd out of 229 books — 83 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
256th out of 2,158 books — 2,432 voters

A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Cold War (nonfiction)
9th out of 364 books — 106 voters
Command and Control by Eric SchlosserVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichThe Radium Girls by Kate MooreFull Body Burden by Kristen IversenThe Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Nuclear Science Studies
1st out of 118 books — 21 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna TarttLife After Life by Kate AtkinsonA Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony MarraThe Signature of All Things by Elizabeth GilbertTenth of December by George Saunders
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013 (fiction and nonfiction)
64th out of 100 books — 817 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)
608th out of 6,241 books — 8,068 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
69th out of 464 books — 275 voters
The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. FeynmanQuantum Mechanics by Claude Cohen-TannoudjiQED by Richard P. FeynmanPrinciples of Quantum Mechanics by Ramamurti ShankarQuantum Mechanics by Albert Messiah
The physicists' library (Physics World)
10th out of 62 books — 7 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhHuế 1968 by Mark BowdenWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreThe Full Circle for Mick by Michael G. Kramer
History Books - Fact and Fiction
251st out of 1,281 books — 434 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
8766th out of 31,959 books — 121,323 voters

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichFull Body Burden by Kristen IversenAtomic Accidents by James MahaffeyThe Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken SilversteinThe Killing of Karen Silkwood by Richard Rashke
Radioactive Elements And Human Error
6th out of 53 books — 13 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best War Novels
561st out of 1,693 books — 1,441 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
388th out of 1,833 books — 2,224 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienHuế 1968 by Mark BowdenThe Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreThe Full Circle for Mick by Michael G. Kramer
Military Books
389th out of 1,124 books — 464 voters

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonEncounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. FennMayflower by Nathaniel PhilbrickAn Army at Dawn by Rick AtkinsonA Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
Pulitzer Prize for History: Winners and Finalists
14th out of 194 books — 12 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
244th out of 299 books — 60 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
267th out of 521 books — 275 voters
Red Famine by Anne ApplebaumGulag by Anne ApplebaumIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumI Contain Multitudes by Ed YongAre We Rome? by Cullen Murphy
Journalism - The Atlantic
11th out of 63 books — 10 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
339th out of 2,021 books — 1,327 voters
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
1114th out of 3,758 books — 3,792 voters

Harry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. RowlingReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Land by Aleron KongThe Martian by Andy Weir
Best Audiobooks Ever
655th out of 1,973 books — 2,837 voters
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrDead Wake by Erik LarsonA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
[ATY 2026] A history or historical fiction book
370th out of 696 books — 50 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhThe Full Circle for Mick by Michael G. KramerHuế 1968 by Mark BowdenWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Plight of a Nation
861st out of 1,151 books — 452 voters
Martyr! by Kaveh AkbarEverything Is Tuberculosis by John GreenThe A.B.C. Murders by Agatha ChristieIs a River Alive? by Robert MacfarlaneWhere'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
[ATY 2026] Punctuation in Title
281st out of 736 books — 57 voters

Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K. RitzFrom the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean DalyThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonGood Omens by Terry PratchettUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The 52 Book Club 2026: #15 - Subtitle With A Comma
114th out of 255 books — 128 voters
The Midnight Library by Matt HaigThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. SchwabAnxious People by Fredrik BackmanThe Four Winds by Kristin HannahWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
2021: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2021
2754th out of 6,717 books — 695 voters

Before the Fallout by Diana PrestonThe Girls of Atomic City by Denise KiernanThe Radium Girls by Kate MooreHidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyRise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt
Atomic Theory is More than Old, White Men
15th out of 22 books — 1 voter
Illusion Town by Jayne CastleThe Trickle-Down Delusion by John SeipMemoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of... by Charles MackayIs the Visual World a Grand Illusion? by Alva NoëBehind the Door of Delusion, by Inmate, Ward 8 by Marion Marle Woodson
Lusions
8th out of 140 books — 5 voters

Astonishing Hypothesis by Francis CrickConfessions by Jean-Jacques RousseauBreaking the Spell by Daniel C. DennettBreakdown of Will by George AinslieCrowds and Power by Elias Canetti
Sam Harris Website Recommendations: Part 1
89th out of 100 books — 1 voter
The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyAid State by Jake JohnstonMeltdown in Tibet by Michael BuckleyPlutopia by Kate Brown
(Un)natural Disasters in History (nonfiction)
16th out of 119 books — 11 voters

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