Editors' Top Picks
Natasha by Suzanne FinstadStories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob LoweMe by Katharine HepburnBossypants by Tina FeyDiana by Andrew Morton
Celebrity Biography
177th out of 943 books — 330 voters
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Sand Pebbles by Richard McKennaShanghai Girls by Lisa SeeThe Kitchen God's Wife by Amy TanThe Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The American Experience in China--Fact and Fiction
15th out of 61 books — 29 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfFun Home by Alison BechdelThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiA Writer's Diary by Virginia WoolfHow to be Both by Ali Smith
Books About Women Artists
79th out of 232 books — 65 voters
A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayWill in the World by Stephen GreenblattI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellOut of Africa / Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Literary biographies
100th out of 481 books — 98 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirBad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Women & Gender Studies
740th out of 1,471 books — 553 voters
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourtCharles Ives by Jan SwaffordWinchell by Neal GablerTruman by David McCulloughPatrimony by Philip Roth
National Book Critics Circle Award Biography/Autobiography Winners and Finalists 1983-1999
21st out of 83 books — 4 voters

My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría HudesEmpire of Ruins by Miles OrvellThe Beauty in Breaking by Michele HarperSalut! by Lynn MillerStrange Harvests by Edward Posnett
Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award Winners
46th out of 100 books — 1 voter


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