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Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootSalt by Mark KurlanskyEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
You Read a Book about What?
4,136 books — 2,426 voters
The Darkangel by Meredith Ann PierceThe Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie PopeMairelon the Magician by Patricia C. WredeYear of the Griffin by Diana Wynne JonesDragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde
Hidden Gems: YA-Fantasy Novels
2,243 books — 2,852 voters

Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniNever My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,068 books — 1,773 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,348 books — 4,669 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneMedea by EuripidesAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Bad Girls and Femmes Fatales
315 books — 130 voters
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersDeath on the Nile by Agatha ChristieInkarna by Nerine DormanThe Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth PetersThe Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
I shot the Pharaoh – Novels on Egyptian Myths and Mysteries
74 books — 75 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA Child's Christmas in Wales & Five Poems by Dylan ThomasLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
Lyric Prose
87 books — 43 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovQuantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1 by Kenneth Schmitt
Non-fiction - Something for Everyone
4,139 books — 1,557 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondPrisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall1491 by Charles C. MannCollapse by Jared DiamondThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Suggested Books for Human Geography
223 books — 58 voters
On Writing by Stephen KingBird by Bird by Anne LamottThe Artist's Way by Julia CameronLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeWriting Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Best Books on Creative Life
514 books — 626 voters


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