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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Children's Lit Before 1923
243 books — 111 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
1,450 books — 1,815 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Hot Zone by Richard PrestonThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Great Influenza by John M. Barry
History of Medicine
355 books — 163 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIsaac's Storm by Erik LarsonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickA Night to Remember by Walter LordAlive by Piers Paul Read
Non-fiction Disaster Books
330 books — 333 voters

From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean DalyMonopoly X by Philip E. OrbanesWhat Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel PoolVictorian London by Liza PicardSexuality and Its Impact on History by Hunter S. Jones
Victorian Britain (nonfiction)
148 books — 83 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Best Historical Mystery
2,299 books — 4,830 voters

The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónOutlander by Diana GabaldonMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Historical Fiction With a Dash of Magic
473 books — 754 voters
Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiTokyo Vice by Jake AdelsteinConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataUnderground by Haruki MurakamiThe Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
Understanding Modern Japan
104 books — 39 voters

On Writing by Stephen KingThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.Bird by Bird by Anne LamottWriting Down the Bones by Natalie GoldbergEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Best Books on Writing
804 books — 1,342 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionMe Before You by Jojo MoyesNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroNormal People by Sally Rooney
Contemporary Romance with Literary Merit
112 books — 96 voters

Harry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Twilight Saga by Stephenie MeyerThe Mortal Instruments Boxed Set by Cassandra ClareVampire Academy Collection by Richelle Mead
Series Reading List
1,433 books — 2,973 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonBringing Down the Colonel by Patricia MillerAmerican Eve by Paula UruburuThe Five by Hallie RubenholdBlood Runs Green by Gillian O'Brien
True Crime and Scandal in the Gilded Age (nonfiction)
140 books — 11 voters


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