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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
2,661 books — 3,621 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
3,102 books — 3,118 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?
4,084 books — 2,143 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovOutliers by Malcolm GladwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,177 books — 2,129 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
1,377 books — 2,005 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
1,357 books — 1,598 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
2,042 books — 1,345 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
2,833 books — 1,249 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
1,217 books — 967 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
1,727 books — 681 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
2,719 books — 599 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 — 539 voters

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffEx Libris by Anne FadimanThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterBook Lust by Nancy PearlThe Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading
1,039 books — 532 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
837 books — 486 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
405 books — 443 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
837 books — 394 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
2,156 books — 382 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
826 books — 343 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
219 books — 330 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
823 books — 330 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
380 books — 315 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
209 books — 252 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
1,690 books — 249 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
1,650 books — 244 voters

Clara Bow by David StennMy Autobiography by Charlie ChaplinMe by Katharine HepburnFalling Waters by Gary D. HenryLulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
Best of Old Hollywood
496 books — 236 voters
And the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsTell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka BruntBorrowed Time by Paul MonetteThe Great Believers by Rebecca MakkaiMillennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Best Books about HIV/AIDS (Fiction and Non-Fiction)
344 books — 229 voters

Her Little Flowers by Shannon MorganThe Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher by E.M. AndersonThe Light of Eternal Spring by Angel Di ZhangThe Mis-Arrangement of Sana Saeed by Noreen MugheesConsumed by Greg Buchanan
Most Anticipated Reads of 2023
412 books — 229 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
169 books — 228 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
370 books — 228 voters
Everything 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 MuirAbundance by Ezra Klein
Nonfiction Published in Year: 2025
1,668 books — 198 voters

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