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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
6,474 books — 7,554 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
2,846 books — 3,988 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
3,274 books — 3,405 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonFirst Time Dad by James        MacdonaldLean In by Sheryl SandbergThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun Ether
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,485 books — 2,937 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?
4,141 books — 2,471 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
1,464 books — 2,092 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
1,420 books — 1,697 voters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,154 books — 1,677 voters

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverIn Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Food-Related Non-Fiction
1,335 books — 1,652 voters
Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauWild by Cheryl StrayedThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
favorite non-fiction
2,956 books — 1,441 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
1,283 books — 1,272 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
1,056 books — 1,157 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
1,792 books — 725 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
2,736 books — 616 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 WeirI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Female Biographies
1,269 books — 430 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
842 books — 419 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanTHE AMERICAN TRANSLATOR by Ahmed AlshuwaikhatThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
Best Medieval History Books
832 books — 394 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
250 books — 373 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
832 books — 357 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
383 books — 345 voters

I 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 BlakeA Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy
2022 LGBTQ Book Releases
212 books — 261 voters
The Body Joyful by Anne  PoirierEverything Is Tuberculosis by John  GreenOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El AkkadCareless People by Sarah Wynn-WilliamsCop Cop by Mac Muir
Nonfiction Published in Year: 2025
1,680 books — 259 voters

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