From Darkness Into Light by A. HelwaSecrets of Divine Love by A. Helwaالقرآن الكريم by AnonymousNo God but God by Reza AslanDoes My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Best Books About Islam & Muslims
89th out of 722 books — 725 voters
Escape to the Maroons by Mike WeedallLife in a Medieval City by Frances GiesAt Home by Bill BrysonA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanA History of Private Life by Philippe Ariès
Social History Books - All About People & Society
54th out of 772 books — 208 voters

In Search of Respect by Philippe BourgoisThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanLiquidated by Karen HoArgonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronisław MalinowskiNisa by Marjorie Shostak
Good Ethnography
14th out of 140 books — 101 voters
The Jewel in the Crown by Paul ScottEnglish Passengers by Matthew KnealeCopenhagen by Michael FraynTouch Not the Cat by Mary StewartThe American by Henry James
Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 to 10,000 ratings)
66th out of 1,907 books — 264 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini1984 by George OrwellA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Non-American books that every American should read
156th out of 694 books — 495 voters
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariCollapse by Jared DiamondDebt by David GraeberKon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Best Popular Anthropology Books on Goodreads
19th out of 362 books — 46 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIn a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Favorite Travel Books
565th out of 2,030 books — 3,944 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Must Read Non-Fiction
1702nd out of 5,279 books — 4,501 voters

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi AliReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiOrientalism by Edward W. SaidFrom Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman
Best Middle East Nonfiction
183rd out of 534 books — 374 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
1130th out of 6,241 books — 8,068 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
906th out of 1,251 books — 413 voters
The Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Last Girl by Nadia MuradThe Librarian of Basra by Jeanette WinterSeven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara CohenKiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird
Books Set in Iraq
100th out of 117 books — 16 voters

Berlin Diary by William L. ShirerQuartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald FraserAs I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie LeePrague Winter by Madeleine K. AlbrightEmbraced by the Light by Betty J. Eadie
Good Memoirs and Autobiographies with 3,000 to 10,000 Ratings
65th out of 70 books — 5 voters
The Guest Cat by Takashi HiraideLand of the Lost by Kennon GrahamAfter We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests by Ted RallDracula's Guest & Other Dark Tales by Peter GuinnessNo Cooked Breakfast by Jim Meade
"Guest" in book titles
21st out of 125 books — 5 voters

Journey to the West by Biao WangThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownFarewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki HoustonI Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Ethnic/Cultural Memoirs
134th out of 501 books — 64 voters
Banaras by Diana L. EckWays of Seeing by John BergerCamera Indica by Christopher PinneyAnd Who Will Make the Chapatis? by Bishakha DattaWriting Women's Worlds by Lila Abu-Lughod
Lila's anthropology & photography list
9th out of 33 books — 1 voter

A Room with a View by E.M. ForsterGifted Hands by Ben CarsonI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiGrandfather Gandhi by Arun GandhiOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
2016 crackdown
16th out of 34 books — 1 voter
West with the Night by Beryl MarkhamOut of Africa by Isak DinesenMy Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-NéelBorn Free by Joy AdamsonA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird
Trailblazing Women Adventurers
152nd out of 540 books — 184 voters

Reckless Traveler by Walter RheinThe Kurdish Bike by Alesa LightbourneOut of Africa by Isak DinesenThe Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten TroostA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Ex-Pats
43rd out of 142 books — 59 voters
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie DillardThe Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda500 Great Books by Women by Erica BauermeisterAfter Henry by Joan DidionAnd the Bridge Is Love by Faye Moskowitz
500 Great Books by Women, Chapter 13: Observations
15th out of 24 books — 2 voters

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. MassieIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XThe Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1960s
52nd out of 148 books — 10 voters
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouAs I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie LeeHell's Angels by Hunter S. ThompsonSpeak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Memoirs Published in the 1960s
14th out of 45 books — 5 voters

Veiled Sentiments by Lila Abu-LughodMusic in Egypt by Scott L. MarcusGuests of the Sheik by Elizabeth Warnock FerneaPolitics of Piety by Saba MahmoodLawrence of Arabia by Steven C. Caton
Anthropology of the Middle East
1st out of 53 books — 3 voters
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond1491 by Charles C. MannCollapse by Jared DiamondA Primate's Memoir by Robert M. SapolskyKon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Best Popular Anthropology Books
201st out of 359 books — 271 voters

The Strategy Mindset by Chuck BamfordBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe Bridge at No Gun Ri by Charles J. HanleyThe First Team by John B. LundstromPiece of Cake by Derek Robinson
Justin's Book of the Year
21st out of 48 books — 1 voter
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireFallen Too Far by Abbi GlinesHopeless by Colleen HooverFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesReal by Katy Evans
Books that you'll never forget!
73rd out of 125 books — 46 voters

Girls in Pants by Ann BrasharesForever in Blue by Ann BrasharesSisterhood Everlasting by Ann BrasharesArtemis Fowl by Eoin ColferStargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Books You Will Come Back To Time and Time Again
25th out of 66 books — 7 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniI Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood AliI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiDoes My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-FattahReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Muslim Girls on the Cover
236th out of 268 books — 141 voters

I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiSacred Hearts by Sarah DunantA Vision of Light by Judith Merkle RileyReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiHild by Nicola Griffith
Veiled Women
118th out of 141 books — 17 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
15043rd out of 15,632 books — 17,943 voters

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