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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
3,726 books — 3,764 voters
John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
2,136 books — 2,503 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,326 books — 1,573 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
100 Best American Authors
754 books — 616 voters

1984 by George OrwellU.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding FathersFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOn Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Books to Read under the Trump Administration
1,169 books — 518 voters
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieLove Medicine by Louise ErdrichThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman AlexieThe Round House by Louise ErdrichGreen Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
Best Native American/First Nations Fiction
579 books — 354 voters

The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanTales of the City by Armistead MaupinThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettChina Blues by Ki LongfellowMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
San Francisco Bay Area Fiction
445 books — 337 voters
Kira-Kira by Cynthia KadohataAmerican Born Chinese by Gene Luen YangGirl in Translation by Jean KwokEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellBorn Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
Best Asian-American Teen Fiction
277 books — 335 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Jungle by Upton SinclairDivergent by Veronica RothBinding Arbitration by Elizabeth Marx
Books Set in Chicago
599 books — 328 voters
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockWinter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom FranklinA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Country Noir
345 books — 310 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
339 books — 276 voters
The Help by Kathryn Stockett11/22/63 by Stephen KingThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeWild World by Peter S. RushGo Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
Best Novels about the 1960s (fiction)
193 books — 240 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
342 books — 234 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyBoot by Charles L. TempletonThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Counter-Culture of the 1960s (fiction and nonfiction)
419 books — 171 voters

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanPopulation by Michael PerryDairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert MurdockThe Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Books Set in Wisconsin
400 books — 168 voters
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XWolf Hustle by Cin FabréThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisSet the Night on Fire by Mike DavisThe New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Best Books on African American Studies (nonfiction)
248 books — 141 voters

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonFun Home by Alison BechdelTwo or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy AllisonZami by Audre LordeLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough
Lesbian Memoirs
280 books — 138 voters
Impossible Saints by Clarissa HarwoodA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftA Time For Courage by Kathryn LaskyFalling Angels by Tracy ChevalierThe Woman's Hour by Elaine F. Weiss
Women's Suffrage
420 books — 130 voters

Goddess of Light by P.C. CastSingle Dad Next Door by Winter RenshawShine Not Burn by Elle CaseyLeaving Las Vegas by John O'BrienFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Las Vegas Books
136 books — 127 voters
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichEvicted by Matthew DesmondJourney to the West by Biao WangMaid by Stephanie LandThe Working Poor by David K. Shipler
Books on Poverty and Inequality
218 books — 117 voters

Spin Doctor by M.C. LewisThird Party by Steven NemerovskiThieves Emporium by Max HernándezLiberté by Gary FloydThird Party by Steven Nemerovski
Fiction That Explores American Politics / American Political Thought
116 books — 110 voters
The 231 Club by J. BartellThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben MacintyreA Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreAgent Zigzag by Ben MacintyreThe Ghost by Jefferson Morley
Best Espionage Books (nonfiction)
158 books — 109 voters

The War on Normal People by Andrew YangShortest Way Home by Pete ButtigiegJourneys with Jimmy Carter and other Adventures in Media by Barry JagodaOur Revolution by Bernie SandersThe Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris
2020 Election Candidates - U.S.A
65 books — 109 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)
364 books — 106 voters

Becoming by Michelle ObamaEducated by Tara WestoverI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraWhen They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-CullorsHouse of Dreams by Liz Rosenberg
Women's biographies 2018
339 books — 103 voters
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy FowlerThe Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganThe Bone Clocks by David MitchellHow to Be Both by Ali SmithThe Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
2014 Man Booker Prize Longlist
13 books — 102 voters

The Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonThe American Heiress by Daisy GoodwinThe Tea Rose by Jennifer DonnellyTo Marry an English Lord by Gail MacCollThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Gilded Age Literature
151 books — 78 voters
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. WhiteGame Change by John HeilemannThe Making of the President 1968 by Theodore H. WhiteWhat It Takes by Richard Ben CramerTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Books about U.S. Presidential Elections (nonfiction)
115 books — 65 voters

Rules of Civility by Amor TowlesThe Second Mrs. Astor by Shana AbeTrust by Hernan DiazThe Personal Librarian by Marie BenedictThe Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Historical Fiction - New York
175 books — 62 voters
The Trigger by Tim ButcherCase Closed by Gerald PosnerDestiny of the Republic by Candice MillardHellhound on His Trail by Hampton SidesI Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Assassination
171 books — 54 voters

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