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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)
6,227 books — 8,065 voters
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondGhost Wars by Steve CollWhy Nations Fail by Daron AcemoğluOn China by Henry KissingerThe Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
FSO Reading List
118 books — 58 voters

Another Place at the Table by Kathy HarrisonThe Girls Who Went Away by Ann FesslerThree Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-CourterThe Connected Child by Karyn PurvisThe Brightness of Stars by Lisa Cherry
Non-Fiction Books about Adoption/Foster Care
491 books — 287 voters
Development as Freedom by Amartya SenThe Bottom Billion by Paul CollierWhy Nations Fail by Daron AcemoğluPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
International Development Book Club
118 books — 77 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Dystopia!
1,218 books — 2,753 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Books About Colonialism
677 books — 239 voters

Discipline and Punish by Michel FoucaultThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnDistinction by Pierre BourdieuThe Constitution of Society by Anthony GiddensThe Modern World-System I by Immanuel Wallerstein
Books of the Century - International Sociological Association
64 books — 10 voters
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,007 books — 1,449 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,837 books — 3,596 voters
John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
2,113 books — 2,481 voters