Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,810 voters
Middlemarch by George EliotThe Mill on the Floss by George EliotOn Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,853 voters

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip Gourevitch
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,222 books — 8,061 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLord of the Flies by William Golding
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,819 voters
Night by Elie WieselThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankMaus I by Art SpiegelmanIf This Is a Man • The Truce by Primo LeviMaus II by Art Spiegelman
Essential Books on the Holocaust
197 books — 194 voters

Hiroshima by John HerseyThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
A WWII Reading List
716 books — 376 voters
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
Best of Willa Cather
94 books — 19 voters

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le CarréThe Quiet American by Graham Greene
Best Spy Novels
1,232 books — 2,212 voters

Anonymous Soldiers by Bruce HoffmanIsrael by Daniel GordisMy Promised Land by Ari ShavitLike Dreamers by Yossi Klein HaleviRise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman
Israel (fiction and nonfiction)
142 books — 20 voters
Bloodlands by Timothy SnyderThe Harvest of Sorrow by Robert ConquestRed Famine by Anne Applebaum
Best Ukrainian History Books
118 books — 20 voters

Orderly and Humane by R.M. DouglasThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
German History
591 books — 154 voters
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip RothShort Stories by Irwin ShawLove and Other Stories by Tibor Déry
Best Contemporary Short Fiction
80 books — 68 voters

A Death in Vienna by Frank TallisNight Falls on the City by Sarah GainhamA New World Begins by Jeremy D. Popkin
Novels set in Vienna
15 books — 13 voters
The Radetzky March by Joseph RothThe World of Yesterday by Stefan ZweigA Nervous Splendor by Frederic Morton
Austro-Hungarian Empire
56 books — 53 voters

Ajax, the Dutch, the War  by Simon KuperFever Pitch by Nick HornbyHow Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer
Best Football (Soccer) Books
510 books — 385 voters

The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
Best WWII Fiction and Biography
696 books — 580 voters
Presumed Innocent by Scott TurowIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Legal Thrillers
279 books — 405 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerNight by Elie Wiesel
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,186 books — 117,787 voters
Ajax, the Dutch, the War  by Simon KuperFever Pitch by Nick HornbyHow Soccer Explains the World by Franklin FoerThe Greatest Comeback by David Bolchover
Soccer Books to Read Next
138 books — 51 voters

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,735 voters
Last Waltz in Vienna by George ClareThe Chosen by Chaim PotokMy Promised Land by Ari ShavitSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo LeviLike Dreamers by Yossi Klein Halevi
JEWISH ISSUES
123 books — 51 voters

January Window by Philip Kerr
Best Football (Soccer) Fiction
32 books — 10 voters
Story of a Secret State by Jan Karski
Best of Polish History
205 books — 48 voters

The Winds of War by Herman WoukThe Chosen by Chaim PotokMarch Violets by Philip KerrExodus by Leon UrisA German Requiem by Philip Kerr
Best 1940s Historical Fiction
380 books — 422 voters
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Writers who committed suicide
466 books — 287 voters


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