Best books?

What do you think are the best books based on or written about history, both fiction and non-fiction? eg. books based on Troy, Hitler, Middle Ages, Greek or Roman myths.

They are my favourite genre books, and i want to find more to read.

thanks for your opinion! =]

1984 by George Orwell

The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

Silver Dagger by T.L green

Chasing the Shadow by Keri Arther

Vampire Acadamy byRichelle Maed

Chasing midnight by Susan Krinard

Companions of the Night by Vivian Vanda Velde

Night Play by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Garden of Stones by Jody Offen

To Love a Vampire by Jody Offen

Sacrement by Clive Barker

A whisper of Eternity by Amanda Ashley

After Sundown by Amanda Ashley

Midnight Embrace by Amanda Ashley

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Protector of the Small Series by Tamora Pierce

Darkness Visible by William Styron

Kiss the Girls by James Patterson

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jack & Jill by James Patterson

Ulysses by James Joyce

A Dove of the East and other stories by Mark Helprin

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Beka Cooper by Tamora Pierce

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Blood and Chocolate by Annete Curtis Klause

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

The Shack by William P. Young

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"Autumn of the Middle Ages," Huizinga,

"From Dawn to Decadence," Barzun,

"Stay Alive, My Son," Yathay,

"The Life of Thomas Moore," Ackroyd,

"The Long Walk," Rawicz,

"Inside the Aquarium," Suvorov,

"Red Cocaine," Dr. Douglass,

"The Lost Footsteps," Craciunas,

"The Soulless One," Prophet,

"University of Destruction," Wheaton,

"The True Story of the Bilderberg Group," Estulin,

"Essence of Aikido," Ueshiba,

"Liberal Fascism," Goldberg,

"Washington: The Indispensable Man," Flexner,

"Hope of the Wicked," Flynn,

"Nihilism," Father Seraphim Rose.

Harry potter of course !!!!!!! is the BEST ^_^

Hitler i would suggest some stories about american soldiers like Band of Brothers and some stories about german soldiers like Black Edelweiss.

Middle Ages - huh, tenthousands and thousands of books exists just only for the middle ages with thems about language, texts, social, jobs, music insturments, wars, politicts and much much more.

so i am going to name random books

OK here we go:

The Agricola and The Germania

Medieval German Literature

Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine

The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa

Greek and Roman myths

The Complete World of Greek Mythology

Myths of the Ancient Greeks

Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths

Myths of the Greeks and Romans

Remus: A Roman Myth

Roman Myths, Heroes, and Legends

Knights Templar Encyclopedia

Richard The Lionheart: The Mighty Crusader

Greatest Knigh

You should go to Barnes and Noble. They have a lot of the classic books by Plato, Herodotus (who wrote the Histories), Thucydides and Homer, etc. for like $5, as well as most of the classics.

For myths I would go with Bulfinch's Mythology (B&N also has that for like $5). You can find many that are more fact and less story, but I perfer hearing the story. I picked up a few books in their bargin section that were Mythology books, a lot of them were fact based.

Try the Marcus Didius Falco books by Lindsey Davis:

Marcus Didius Falco is the central character and narrator in a series of novels by Lindsey Davis. Using the conceits of modern detective stories (with Falco as the private investigator, roughly translated into the classical world as a 'private informer'), Davis portrays the world of the Roman Empire under Vespasian. The tone is arch and satirical, but the historical information provided is carefully accurate

I like Harry Potter:)

the odyssey and illiad by homer

also, try the book "troy" or helen of troy,also a good non fic based on the holocaust is night by eli weasle

The Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Absolutely jammed packed with Greek, Roman, and Celtic mythology!!! Warning, though, they are parnormal. But everything in them is completely based off of the myths of old (including Atlantis)!!!