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
1,453 books — 1,815 voters
Educated by Tara WestoverNot That Bad by Roxane GaySo You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma OluoBecoming by Michelle ObamaThis Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins
2018 Non-male Non-Fiction
304 books — 146 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraFascism by Madeleine K. AlbrightEnlightenment Now by Steven PinkerChildren of Nazis by Tania Crasnianski
Historical Nonfiction 2018
223 books — 57 voters
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWhy I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-LodgeBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Guardian's Diverse Reading List
29 books — 8 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,427 books — 5,105 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Best Historical Fiction
8,044 books — 26,725 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling1984 by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,830 books — 124,625 voters