1949-89: A History Lesson By Billy Joel

1.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,801,015 ratings
2.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls 3.99 avg rating — 311,434 ratings
3.
The Crucible
The Crucible 3.61 avg rating — 452,230 ratings
4.
On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,563 ratings
5.
Peter Pan
Peter Pan 4.03 avg rating — 366,999 ratings
6.
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago 4.01 avg rating — 101,121 ratings
7.
Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land 3.92 avg rating — 323,302 ratings
8.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,206 ratings
9.
East of Eden
East of Eden 4.43 avg rating — 602,401 ratings
10.
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
The Bridge Over the River Kwai 3.94 avg rating — 10,407 ratings
11.
Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1)
Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 13,123 ratings
12.
Tales of the South Pacific
Tales of the South Pacific 4.04 avg rating — 16,438 ratings
13.
The Quiet American
The Quiet American 3.98 avg rating — 68,875 ratings
14.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 344,530 ratings
15.
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 4.19 avg rating — 66,225 ratings
16.
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea 3.81 avg rating — 1,265,924 ratings
17.
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic 4.39 avg rating — 28,863 ratings
18.
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating — 120,300 ratings
19.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,154,234 ratings
20.
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire 3.98 avg rating — 328,913 ratings
21.
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung 3.49 avg rating — 3,850 ratings
22.
My Story
My Story 4.06 avg rating — 6,153 ratings
23.
Rosa Parks: My Story
Rosa Parks: My Story 4.18 avg rating — 2,663 ratings
23.
The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses 3.71 avg rating — 70,310 ratings
25.
The Road to Woodstock
The Road to Woodstock 4.10 avg rating — 1,896 ratings
26.
The King and I
The King and I 4.24 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
27.
Truman
Truman 4.17 avg rating — 90,312 ratings
28.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb 4.40 avg rating — 23,890 ratings
29.
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 296,891 ratings
30.
All the President’s Men
All the President’s Men 4.18 avg rating — 56,979 ratings
31.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 4.03 avg rating — 37,358 ratings
32.
The Uncommon Reader
The Uncommon Reader 3.73 avg rating — 58,268 ratings
33.
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis 4.08 avg rating — 8,805 ratings
34.
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base 3.86 avg rating — 10,399 ratings
35.
Marilyn
Marilyn 3.73 avg rating — 1,800 ratings
36.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 482,112 ratings
37.
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War 4.25 avg rating — 4,398 ratings
38.
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
Psycho (Psycho, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 74,137 ratings
39.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 4.20 avg rating — 31,567 ratings
40.
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory 4.20 avg rating — 22,704 ratings
41.
The Making of the President 1968
The Making of the President 1968 4.18 avg rating — 766 ratings
42.
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall 4.20 avg rating — 21,291 ratings
43.
The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs 4.20 avg rating — 580 ratings
44.
Rebel: The Life and Legend of James Dean
Rebel: The Life and Legend of James Dean 3.81 avg rating — 334 ratings
45.
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch 3.88 avg rating — 29,043 ratings
46.
Ho Chi Minh: A Life
Ho Chi Minh: A Life 4.15 avg rating — 936 ratings
47.
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War 3.62 avg rating — 110 ratings
48.
The Making of the President 1960
The Making of the President 1960 4.15 avg rating — 7,922 ratings
49.
The Tiananmen Papers
The Tiananmen Papers 4.08 avg rating — 195 ratings
50.
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb 4.19 avg rating — 2,943 ratings
50.
Chronicles, Volume One
Chronicles, Volume One
by: Bob Dylan
3.98 avg rating — 60,453 ratings
52.
Senator Joe McCarthy
Senator Joe McCarthy 3.74 avg rating — 84 ratings
53.
Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution 4.22 avg rating — 570 ratings
54.
Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine
Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 252 ratings
55.
Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia 4.04 avg rating — 498 ratings
56.
Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41
Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41 3.89 avg rating — 71 ratings
57.
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,294 ratings
58.
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Einstein: His Life and Universe 4.17 avg rating — 197,590 ratings
59.
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.14 avg rating — 12,631 ratings
60.
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia 4.26 avg rating — 3,108 ratings
61.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. 4.16 avg rating — 35,595 ratings
62.
The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963
The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963 3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings
63.
Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie: Images of the Berlin Wall
Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie: Images of the Berlin Wall 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
64.
Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1)
Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 24,951 ratings
65.
Rock Around the Clock
Rock Around the Clock really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
66.
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall 4.37 avg rating — 12,283 ratings
67.
The Suez Crisis 1956 (Essential Histories, 49)
The Suez Crisis 1956 (Essential Histories, 49) 3.47 avg rating — 43 ratings
68.
The Public Burning
The Public Burning 4.01 avg rating — 1,465 ratings
69.
Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation
Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation 4.04 avg rating — 5,967 ratings
70.
Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev And The U-2 Affair
Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev And The U-2 Affair 4.21 avg rating — 459 ratings
70.
The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth 3.83 avg rating — 492 ratings
72.
The Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs 3.69 avg rating — 181 ratings
73.
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea 4.45 avg rating — 96,078 ratings
74.
Eisenhower: Soldier and President
Eisenhower: Soldier and President 4.03 avg rating — 12,605 ratings
75.
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock 3.81 avg rating — 1,597 ratings
75.
Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon
Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon 3.99 avg rating — 323 ratings
77.
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 4.36 avg rating — 9,962 ratings
77.
To Have and Have Not
To Have and Have Not 3.51 avg rating — 35,664 ratings
79.
Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
by: Jan Wong
4.09 avg rating — 3,887 ratings
80.
Doris Day
Doris Day 3.57 avg rating — 98 ratings
80.
The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed
The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed 3.39 avg rating — 480 ratings
82.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: The FBI Files
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: The FBI Files liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
83.
Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis 3.96 avg rating — 684 ratings
84.
The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair
The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair 3.92 avg rating — 275 ratings
85.
The Killing of a President: The Complete Photographic Record of the JFK Assassination
The Killing of a President: The Complete Photographic Record of the JFK Assassination 4.35 avg rating — 235 ratings
86.
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood 3.97 avg rating — 6,843 ratings
87.
Winchell Exclusive: "Things that Happened to Me — and Me to Them"
Winchell Exclusive: "Things that Happened to Me — and Me to Them" 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
87.
Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin
Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin 4.15 avg rating — 159 ratings
89.
Studebaker 1933 Through 1942: Photo Archive
Studebaker 1933 Through 1942: Photo Archive 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
90.
Meeting Mr Kim : or How I Went To Korea And Learned To Love Kimchi
Meeting Mr Kim : or How I Went To Korea And Learned To Love Kimchi 3.19 avg rating — 243 ratings
91.
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley 4.17 avg rating — 9,895 ratings
92.
The Boys of Summer
The Boys of Summer 4.13 avg rating — 12,465 ratings
93.
Walt Disney's Peter Pan
Walt Disney's Peter Pan 4.35 avg rating — 47,895 ratings
94.
Dien Bien Phu (Battle book ; no. 33)
Dien Bien Phu (Battle book ; no. 33) 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
95.
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
by: Gary Webb
4.30 avg rating — 1,967 ratings
96.
Toscanini
Toscanini 4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings
96.
The Devil and Sonny Liston
The Devil and Sonny Liston 3.84 avg rating — 785 ratings
98.
The Philosophy Of The Revolution
The Philosophy Of The Revolution 3.95 avg rating — 87 ratings
99.
The Six-Day War: A Retrospective
The Six-Day War: A Retrospective really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
100.
Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 3.90 avg rating — 208 ratings
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