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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
6,121 books — 6,843 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
2,757 books — 3,696 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
3,163 books — 3,116 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonFirst Time Dad by James MacdonaldSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,341 books — 2,453 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?
4,094 books — 2,276 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
1,388 books — 2,023 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
1,370 books — 1,618 voters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,077 books — 1,370 voters

Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian ProbstThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
favorite non-fiction
2,873 books — 1,271 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Best African American Books
1,041 books — 1,139 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanQuiet by Susan Cain
Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
1,232 books — 978 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
1,757 books — 674 voters

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffEx Libris by Anne FadimanTHINKING DOLBY ATMOS by Claudio JansThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterBook Lust by Nancy Pearl
Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading
1,051 books — 608 voters
Broken Bonds by J. BreePestilence by Laura ThalassaSavage Bonds by J. BreeThe V Girl by Mya RobartsGild by Raven Kennedy
Under the Radar Page-Turners
2,725 books — 604 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
1,931 books — 544 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
833 books — 487 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
406 books — 452 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassieMarie Antoinette by Antonia FraserThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
Female Biographies
1,251 books — 414 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
831 books — 409 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
2,157 books — 388 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
825 books — 347 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
221 books — 344 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
376 books — 338 voters
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir1453 by Roger Crowley
Best Medieval History Books
819 books — 330 voters

Yes Please by Amy PoehlerDon't Forget to Dance by Marc AlderdiceNot That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham#Girlboss by Sophia AmorusoWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nonfiction for Women in their Twenties
362 books — 322 voters
Little Crazy Children Are Jangling the Keys of the Kingdom by Richard P. SinayI Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuistonThe Hourglass Throne by K.D. EdwardsAll That's Left in the World by Erik J. BrownDelilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
2022 LGBTQ Book Releases
206 books — 285 voters

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasThe Great Alone by Kristin HannahEducated by Tara Westover
2018: What People Born in the 1980's Have Read in 2018
1,691 books — 255 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodBig Little Lies by Liane MoriartyA Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanScrappy Little Nobody by Anna KendrickHidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
2017: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2017
1,654 books — 250 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah BlumDeath's Acre by William M. BassDead Men Do Tell Tales by William R. MaplesBeyond the Body Farm by William M. Bass
Forensics: If It Doesn't Walk, We Bring Out the Chalk
185 books — 231 voters
Do Hard Things by Alex HarrisBefore You Meet Prince Charming by Sarah MallyMaking Brothers and Sisters Best Friends by Sarah MallyI Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua HarrisAlone Yet Not Alone by Tracy Michele Leininger
Books by Homeschoolers
365 books — 230 voters

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