Book Lists Liked by <a href="/user/show/106680274-mark-pressler">Mark Pressler</a> (7 Lists)

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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

1,033 books — 885 voters

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

Food-Related Non-Fiction

1,372 books — 1,734 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Africa (fiction and nonfiction)

1,893 books — 1,775 voters

Stiff by Mary Roach

Salt by Mark Kurlansky

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

Longitude by Dava Sobel

Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing

1,882 books — 2,267 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class

2,223 books — 1,660 voters

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Born To Rise by Lorna Blake

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

First Time Dad by James Macdonald

Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg

Interesting and Readable Nonfiction

4,563 books — 3,302 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,403 books — 8,180 voters