The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodCinder by Marissa MeyerThe Host by Stephenie Meyer
Best Science Fiction With a Female Protagonist
1,456 books — 3,113 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerKilling Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly
Non-fiction for Fiction Lovers
192 books — 143 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,416 books — 8,200 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood1984 by George OrwellV for Vendetta by Alan MooreFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Resist Books
23 books — 7 voters

Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinThe Study of Language by George YuleMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Best Books about Linguistics
257 books — 225 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 173 voters