Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/74067287-jeff">Jeff</a> (425 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jeff (425 Lists)

Grant by Ron Chernow

Robert E. Lee by Emory M. Thomas

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Citizen-General by Eugene D. Schmiel

Ulysses S. Grant by Michael Korda

Best Biographies of People involved in the American Civil War

54 books — 12 voters

The Earth Is Weeping by Peter Cozzens

Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides

Military Life in Dakota by Philippe R. De Trobriand

Frontier Soldier by William Zimmer

Great Sioux War Orders of Battle by Paul L. Hedren

"The American Indian Wars" (nonfiction)

169 books — 14 voters

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson

An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson

A World At Arms by Gerhard L. Weinberg

Crossroads of Freedom by James M. McPherson

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

Pritzker Literature Award Winners

52 books — 5 voters

Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen

Papillon by Henri Charrière

Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose

The Travels by Marco Polo

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

Best Historical Travel Journals

335 books — 238 voters

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis

The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell

The Travels by Marco Polo

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

National Geographic's Top 100 Adventure Books

103 books — 3 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Complete Chronicles of Conan by Robert E. Howard

Swords in the Mist by Fritz Leiber

Pulps Past and Present

403 books — 118 voters

The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell

The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell

Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell

Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwell

The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell

Best of Bernard Cornwell

101 books — 53 voters

Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa

Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa

Shōgun by James Clavell

The Samurai by Shūsaku Endō

Top Samurai Novels

70 books — 102 voters

Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart Hyman

List for #nerdcott

335 books — 43 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock

Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber

The Dying Earth by Jack Vance

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard

71 books — 35 voters

The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny

Sci-Fi & Fantasy Omnibi

101 books — 4 voters

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Thrill of Cheap Paperbacks

256 books — 12 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Dying Earth by Jack Vance

Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance

Shadow & Claw by Gene Wolfe

Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith

140 books — 20 voters

The High Crusade by Poul Anderson

Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh

The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge

Forever Free by Joe Haldeman

The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker

Best Hugo Award Winners and Nominees

294 books — 165 voters

Maigret Defends Himself by Georges Simenon

The Last Valley by Martin Windrow

Street Without Joy by Bernard B. Fall

The Franco-Prussian War by Geoffrey Wawro

Francis Parkman by Francis Parkman

All Things French

455 books — 48 voters

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers

The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling

Best Steampunk Books

1,230 books — 4,085 voters

Retreat from Kokoda by Raymond Paull

A Bastard of a Place by Peter Brune

Hell's Battlefield by Phillip Bradley

To Kokoda by Nicholas Anderson

8 books — 6 voters

The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan

D-Day, June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose

D-Day by Antony Beevor

The Dead and Those About to Die by John C. McManus

Overlord by Max Hastings

Best D-day books

63 books — 38 voters

Night Soldiers by Alan Furst

World War II Espionage (fiction)

26 books — 33 voters

The King Must Die by Mary Renault

The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault

The Iliad by Homer

Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault

Classical Fiction

73 books — 67 voters

Corruption and the Decline of Rome by Ramsay MacMullen

The Late Roman Army by Patricia Southern

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction by Robert P. Mills

Super Underrated Books (Fewer than 50 Ratings)

1,271 books — 167 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Galton Case by Ross Macdonald

Best California Books

426 books — 210 voters

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

1,673 books — 644 voters

Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton

The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson

Egil's Saga by Anonymous

Hrolf Kraki's Saga by Poul Anderson

The Whale Road by Robert Low

Best Viking Books

113 books — 55 voters

The Iliad by Homer

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Odyssey by Homer

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen

Franklin Library 100

100 books — 6 voters

On Writing by Stephen King

All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Darkness Visible by William Styron

The Historian's Craft by Marc Bloch

Must Read Memoirs

1,220 books — 795 voters

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem

Island of Ghosts by Gillian Bradshaw

The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff

Cross of Iron by Willi Heinrich

Historical Military Fiction

383 books — 100 voters

The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples by Herwig Wolfram

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

Frederick the Great by Gerhard Ritter

History of the Goths by Herwig Wolfram

The Early Germans by Malcolm Todd

591 books — 154 voters

A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Conquered by Larry J. Daniel

América by Robert Goodwin

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis

Your Top 5 Reads in 2019

671 books — 261 voters

The Anza Trail and the Settling of California by Vladimir Guerrero

Manteca by Evelyn Prouty Thompson

John Bidwell and California by Michael J. Gillis

A Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America by Gabriel Franchère

Sutter's Fort by Oscar Lewis

Northern Californian history (nonfiction)

123 books — 36 voters

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