The Chronology of Water by Lidia YuknavitchAutobiography of a Face by Lucy GrealyIntersex by Thea HillmanSongs of the Gorilla Nation by Dawn Prince-HughesJanet Frame by Janet Frame
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
670 books — 1,042 voters
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam ToewsThree Day Road by Joseph BoydenA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
Canada Reads: All Nominees and Winners
112 books — 63 voters

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Canada Reads 2011 - Top 40 Novels
40 books — 126 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Dew Breaker by Edwidge DanticatUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Multi-Ethnic American Literature
296 books — 141 voters

On Being Ill by Virginia WoolfThe Years by Virginia Woolf
From Virginia's Room
85 books — 60 voters
Blue Boy by Rakesh SatyalFunny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
Gay Asian Books
115 books — 84 voters

Stealth by Samuel AceThe Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne ScholinskiTrumpet by Jackie Kay
FTM / Trans Men
249 books — 206 voters

Starcarbon by Ellen Gilchrist
Best Southern Literature
1,335 books — 2,573 voters
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichDiscipline and Punish by Michel FoucaultThe Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume Two by Karl PopperBorderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaFor Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,227 books — 8,076 voters

Zami by Audre Lorde
African American Cultural Studies
181 books — 60 voters
The Education of Harriet Hatfield by May Sarton
Books About Bookstores
640 books — 807 voters

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
adult dystopias
166 books — 137 voters

Silver Sparrow by Tayari JonesHowards End by E.M. ForsterThe Anna Papers by Ellen GilchristUnless by Carol ShieldsTorch by Cheryl Strayed
Best Sibling Books
767 books — 359 voters
Unburnable by Marie-Elena JohnThe Farming of Bones by Edwidge DanticatThe Dew Breaker by Edwidge DanticatBreath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatFree Enterprise by Michelle Cliff
Caribbean Literature
578 books — 261 voters

The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr
Best Asian-American Teen Fiction
276 books — 338 voters
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
Not the Booker Prize 2010
86 books — 179 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonThe Book of Negroes by Lawrence HillThe Known World by Edward P. JonesThe Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
Books about American slavery
405 books — 405 voters
Beloved by Toni MorrisonThe Plague by Albert CamusSix Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi PirandelloThe Clown by Heinrich BöllParadise by Toni Morrison
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
381 books — 278 voters

The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini
Books Set in Zimbabwe
130 books — 100 voters
The Silent Minaret by Ishtiyaq Shukri
Best Books About Islam & Muslims
722 books — 725 voters