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Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanLife by Keith RichardsOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,438 books — 1,342 voters
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. MassieThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassiePeter the Great by Robert K. MassieGulag by Anne Applebaum
Best Russian History Books
549 books — 384 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)
357 books — 104 voters
Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu PresleyLast Train to Memphis by Peter GuralnickCareless Love by Peter GuralnickBaby, Let's Play House by Alanna NashElvis and Ginger by Ginger Alden
Books about Elvis Presley (fiction and nonfiction)
143 books — 56 voters

The Coldest Winter by David HalberstamThe Korean War by Max HastingsOn Desperate Ground by Hampton SidesFrozen Chosin by Edwin H. SimmonsThis Kind of War by T.R. Fehrenbach
Korean War
136 books — 52 voters
Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaThe Lost Promise by Ellen SchreckerMarch by John LewisNational Lampoon's 1964 High School Yearbook by P.J. O'Rourke
Best Books on Sixties History (Non-Fiction)
189 books — 42 voters

Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth AngerElvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu PresleyThe Princess Diarist by Carrie FisherWishful Drinking by Carrie FisherAll About All About Eve by Sam Staggs
Hooray for Hollywood (non-fiction)
232 books — 38 voters
Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaAnd a Voice to Sing With by Joan BaezOutlaw Woman by Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizHouse of Diggs by Marion Orr
Sixties Memoirs & Biographies (nonfiction)
172 books — 37 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisMy Whirlwind Lives by Mr. Dee Charles KnightReckless by Robert K. Brigham1968 by Mark KurlanskyVietnam by Stanley Karnow
The Politics of the Vietnam War (nonfiction)
134 books — 26 voters
Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinWithout Sanctuary by James AllenSegregating Sound by Karl Hagstrom MillerMedical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
Segregation in the United States (nonfiction)
186 books — 22 voters

The Secret Man by Bob WoodwardThe Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnStayin’ Alive by Jefferson R. CowieGame, Set, Match by Susan WareThe Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's by Steven Lee Beeber
The 1970s in the United States (nonfiction)
228 books — 21 voters
Black Folk by Blair L.M. KelleyFreeman's Challenge by Robin BernsteinNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichSlavery by Another Name by Douglas A. BlackmonMother Jones by Elliott J. Gorn
Proletariat: US Labor History (nonfiction)
243 books — 20 voters

Sophie’s Choice by William StyronThe Last Secret of The Soul by Stephen P. SmithMy Bridges of Hope by Livia Bitton-JacksonThe Aftermath by Rhidian BrookThe Story Keeper by Fred Feldman
Post-Holocaust
34 books — 19 voters
Nixonland by Rick PerlsteinThe Final Days by Bob WoodwardNixon and Kissinger by Robert DallekAll the President’s Men by Carl BernsteinBag Man by Rachel Maddow
Richard Nixon (fiction and nonfiction)
135 books — 18 voters

Spy... for Nobody! Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence by Basel Saneebجاسوس من أجل لا أحد by Basel SaneebKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannSpy... for Nobody! by Basel SaneebSpy for nobody by Basel Saneeb
Best FBI Nonfiction
52 books — 17 voters
Dr. Mütter's Marvels by Cristin O'Keefe AptowiczThe Philadelphia Negro by W.E.B. Du BoisCity Of Sisterly And Brotherly Loves by Marc SteinThe Buried Past by John L. CotterThe Fearless Benjamin Lay by Marcus Rediker
Philadelphia History (nonfiction)
79 books — 15 voters

A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreThe Ghost by Jefferson MorleyA Spy Named Orphan by Roland PhilippsStalin's Englishman by Andrew LownieTreason in the Blood by Anthony Cave Brown
Cambridge Spy Ring (nonfiction)
30 books — 11 voters
Nixonland by Rick PerlsteinThe Nixon Defense by John W. DeanAll the President’s Men by Carl BernsteinOne Man Against the World by Tim WeinerBeing Nixon by Evan Thomas
US Presidents: Richard Nixon (nonfiction)
182 books — 9 voters

President Kennedy by Richard ReevesA Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.These Few Precious Days by Christopher AndersenRobert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill
Camelot: Books on JFK's Presidency, 1961-1963 (nonfiction)
171 books — 8 voters
Thunderstruck by Erik LarsonEmpireland by Sathnam SangheraChurchill's Secret War by Madhusree MukerjeeThe Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan RoseBlack and British by David Olusoga
Best 20th Century British (U.K.) History - 3.7 Stars and Up
143 books — 7 voters

Eisenhower vs. Warren by James F. SimonIke and McCarthy by David A. NicholsEisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward SmithEisenhower's Guerillas by Benjamin F. JonesBlood and Sand by Alex von Tunzelmann
US Presidents: Dwight Eisenhower (nonfiction)
122 books — 4 voters
On Desperate Ground by Hampton SidesThe General vs. the President by H.W. BrandsThe Korean War by Max HastingsThe Korean War by Bruce CumingsThe Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot by Blaine Harden
The Korean War (nonfiction)
93 books — 4 voters

The Age of Eisenhower by William I. HitchcockThe Fifties by James R. GainesThe Brothers by Stephen KinzerThe Twilight of the American Enlightenment by George M. MarsdenThe General vs. the President by H.W. Brands
The 1950s in the United States (nonfiction)
62 books — 2 voters
Pat and Dick by Will SwiftPat Nixon by Julie Nixon EisenhowerThe Lonely Lady of San Clemente by Lester DavidPat Nixon by Mary C. BrennanThe Nixons by Cass R. Sandak
First Ladies: Pat Nixon, 1912-1993 (nonfiction)
5 books — 1 voter

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