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?
4,084 books — 2,141 voters
The Darkangel by Meredith Ann PierceThe Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie PopeMairelon the Magician by Patricia C. WredeMia's Magic Wand by Peter VolkofskyYear of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones
Hidden Gems: YA-Fantasy Novels
2,217 books — 2,835 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
1,015 books — 1,457 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
1,313 books — 4,565 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
4,110 books — 1,503 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
222 books — 57 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
511 books — 624 voters


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