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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
6,566 books — 7,824 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
2,934 books — 4,240 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
3,379 books — 3,592 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonFirst Time Dad by James MacdonaldLean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,540 books — 3,143 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?
4,155 books — 2,516 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
1,483 books — 2,110 voters

An Accidental Philanthropist by Winsome Dunn McIntoshThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,230 books — 1,883 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
1,445 books — 1,801 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
1,355 books — 1,685 voters
Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Ra Contact by Donald Tully ElkinsWild by Cheryl Strayed
favorite non-fiction
2,979 books — 1,482 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
1,304 books — 1,374 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
1,062 books — 1,160 voters

The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One by George Walters-SleyonBroken Bonds by J. BreeThe Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume Two by George Walters-SleyonPestilence by Laura ThalassaSavage Bonds by J. Bree
Under the Radar Page-Turners
2,745 books — 758 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
1,803 books — 728 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
1,103 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
1,954 books — 570 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
839 books — 494 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
422 books — 466 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanTwo Faces of the Moon by Dennis K. LawTHE AMERICAN TRANSLATOR by Ahmed AlshuwaikhatThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan Jones
Best Medieval History Books
834 books — 462 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
1,272 books — 435 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
843 books — 416 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
256 books — 414 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
2,176 books — 409 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
841 books — 361 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
1,673 books — 358 voters
The Doomsday Butcher by S.E. StitcherIn the Shadows of the Blitz by Mark EllisIt's All in Your Head by Sabina NordqvistPoinsettia Girl by Jennifer WizbowskiThe Embassy Murders by Mark Ellis
Summer Reading Adventure
1,588 books — 356 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
386 books — 355 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
384 books — 346 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
1,706 books — 271 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 — 263 voters

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