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Pick fiction or non-fiction, then a genre, then a topic inside it. A book can sit in more than one genre.

The full library classification — every book has exactly one, more granular than Genre. Different counts for a same-named bucket here vs. Genre reflect two different systems, not an error.

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A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

1929 ★ 3.7

Golem

David Wisniewski

1996 ★ 4.3

The Second World War

Winston S. Churchill

1948 ★ 3.8

Home

Toni Morrison

2012 ★ 4.0

The March

E. L. Doctorow

2005

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2006 ★ 4.3

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

1974 ★ 4.3

Watership Down

Richard Adams

1973 ★ 4.2

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

1810 ★ 3.9

The Art of War

Stephen F. Kaufman, Lionel Giles, 孙武 (Sun Tzu) et al.

1910 ★ 4.1

Legend

Marie Lu

2011 ★ 4.2

Life After Life

Kate Atkinson

2013 ★ 4.3

Voyage au bout de la nuit

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

1960 ★ 4.1

Toll the hounds

Steven Erikson

2008 ★ 4.5

Command Authority

Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney

2013 ★ 4.3

Oakleaf Bearers

John Flanagan

2006 ★ 3.9

Boży bojownicy

Andrzej Sapkowski

2021 ★ 4.2

Ἰλιάς

Όμηρος

1689 ★ 4.1

The Lost Stories

John Flanagan

2011 ★ 4.1

Bonehunters

Steven Erikson

2007 ★ 4.5

The People of Sparks (Book of Ember #2)

Jeanne DuPrau

2004 ★ 3.8

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

J. K. Rowling

2007 ★ 4.3

A rising Thunder

David Weber

2012 ★ 3.7

Rose Blanche

Roberto Innocenti, Christophe Gallaz

1985 ★ 4.0

Only You Can Save Mankind

Terry Pratchett

1992 ★ 3.4

Gregor and the Marks of Secret

Suzanne Collins

2006 ★ 4.8

Eragon

Christopher Paolini

2003 ★ 3.8

Vom Kriege

Carl von Clausewitz

1883 ★ 3.6

... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen

Viktor E. Frankl

1959 ★ 4.3

The Prize

Daniel Yergin

1991 ★ 4.5

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