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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsNight by Elie WieselAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,877 books — 8,779 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
3,079 books — 4,522 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Women
3,519 books — 4,120 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittBorn To Rise by Lorna BlakeCounsel, the Courtroom Is Open by Mark C. ZaudererA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonLean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,867 books — 3,751 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootSalt by Mark KurlanskyEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
You Read a Book about What?
4,202 books — 2,574 voters
An Accidental Philanthropist by Winsome Dunn McIntoshSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonNew Space Capitalism by Rainer ZitelmannQuiet by Susan Cain
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,424 books — 2,262 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonColumbine by Dave Cullen
Best True Crime
1,534 books — 2,224 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,526 books — 1,957 voters

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserIn Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Food-Related Non-Fiction
1,269 books — 1,714 voters
Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor Bombov
favorite non-fiction
3,053 books — 1,588 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanSingle at Heart by Bella DePaulo
Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
1,387 books — 1,520 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBorn To Rise by Lorna Blake
Best African American Books
1,100 books — 1,367 voters

Broken Bonds by J. BreeThe Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One by George Walters-SleyonThe Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume Two by George Walters-SleyonPestilence by Laura ThalassaSavage Bonds by J. Bree
Under the Radar Page-Turners
2,760 books — 827 voters
Night by Elie WieselAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Memoirs by Men
1,843 books — 810 voters

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffEx Libris by Anne FadimanThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterAdoption Memoirs by Marianne NovyBook Lust by Nancy Pearl
Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading
1,132 books — 696 voters
The Path to Success and Happiness by Joseph Chew Boon SimPearls Of Wisdom VOLUME 1 by Joseph ZhouLifelines by Charlie CherryLifelines by Charlie CherryLifelines by Charlie Cherry
Christian Living/Nonfiction
409 books — 654 voters

The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Martian by Andy WeirGone Girl by Gillian FlynnStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelYes Please by Amy Poehler
2015: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2015
1,981 books — 635 voters
Fun Home by Alison BechdelAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsStone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergThe Mayor of Castro Street by Randy ShiltsOdd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman
Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction
845 books — 506 voters

Maus I by Art SpiegelmanPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiFun Home by Alison BechdelThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiStitches by David Small
Best Memoir Graphic Novels
446 books — 501 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassieMarie Antoinette by Antonia FraserI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Female Biographies
1,294 books — 495 voters

The Happiness Project by Gretchen RubinThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. JacobsAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertJulie and Julia by Julie Powell
A Year in the Life
271 books — 449 voters
The Doomsday Butcher by S.E. StitcherIn the Shadows of the Blitz by Mark EllisPoinsettia Girl by Jennifer WizbowskiThe Embassy Murders by Mark EllisThe Only Possible Solution by Fons Burger
Summer Reading Adventure
1,647 books — 445 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Books about Books and Libraries
858 books — 439 voters
Me Before You by Jojo MoyesThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Martian by Andy Weir
2016: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2016
2,184 books — 432 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBecause of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilloA Land Remembered by Patrick D. SmithThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsSwamplandia! by Karen Russell
Best Books Set in or About Florida
853 books — 376 voters
Life In Instalments by Danielle SartorelliCrossing the Cactus by David C BlivinThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodBig Little Lies by Liane MoriartyA Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
2017: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2017
1,684 books — 374 voters

The Call of the Wild by Jack LondonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerWhite Fang by Jack LondonThe Great Alone by Kristin HannahThe Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Alaska Tales
391 books — 366 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One by George Walters-SleyonThe Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume Two by George Walters-Sleyon
Best Books About Nineteenth Century History
688 books — 360 voters

The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtBorn To Rise by Lorna BlakeA Boy at War by Bill MaierWho We Met on the Way to Stanford by Richard Phillip Sinay
Coming-of-Age Memoirs
470 books — 328 voters
Yes Please by Amy PoehlerNot That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham#Girlboss by Sophia AmorusoWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Defining Decade by Meg Jay
Nonfiction for Women in their Twenties
391 books — 310 voters

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