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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsMina and the Undead by Amy McCawThe Awakening by Kate ChopinZeitoun by Dave Eggers
Best New Orleans Books
421 books — 346 voters
Huey Long by T. Harry WilliamsThe World That Made New Orleans by Ned SubletteKingfish by Richard D. White Jr.The Earl of Louisiana by A.J. LieblingA Great and Noble Scheme by John Mack Faragher
Best Louisiana History Books (Nonfiction)
228 books — 35 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonThe Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
#CharlestonSyllabus
188 books — 84 voters
Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonThe Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann WoodwardParting the Waters by Taylor BranchPillar of Fire by Taylor BranchThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Southern History
193 books — 22 voters

The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe Civil War by Shelby FooteCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best American Civil War Books
1,000 books — 976 voters
Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonCivil War by Shelby FooteThe American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War by Bruce CattonThe American Heritage New History of the Civil War by Bruce CattonCo. Aytch by Sam R. Watkins
Civil War Essentials
114 books — 16 voters

An Army at Dawn by Rick AtkinsonBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonWhat Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker HoweFounding Brothers by Joseph J. EllisWashington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
Pulitzer History
42 books — 18 voters
Britain in Revolution by Austin WoolrychCavaliers and Roundheads by Christopher HibbertCavaliers by John BarrattCromwell by Antonia FraserGod's Fury, England's Fire by Michael Braddick
British Civil Wars
54 books — 14 voters

The Shipping News by Annie ProulxThe Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne JohnstonGalore by Michael CrummeyAnnabel by Kathleen WinterRandom Passage by Bernice Morgan
Newfoundland Reads
256 books — 76 voters
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickThe Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor HeyerdahlSea of Glory by Nathaniel PhilbrickTwo Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Best Seafaring History books
175 books — 32 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
518 books — 270 voters
The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher HillGod's Englishman by Christopher HillThe English Civil War by Diane PurkissCavaliers and Roundheads by Christopher HibbertThe Major Works by John Milton
The English Civil Wars 1640 - 1660
92 books — 35 voters


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