The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Around the World in 100 Books
1,327 books — 711 voters
Fingersmith by Sarah WatersTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersAnnie on My Mind by Nancy GardenFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Price of Salt by Claire  Morgan
Best Lesbian Fiction
2,056 books — 2,690 voters

Salt by Mark KurlanskyAt Home by Bill BrysonTHE AMERICAN TRANSLATOR by Ahmed AlshuwaikhatGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Histories of the Everyday
376 books — 429 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonBlood River by Tim ButcherThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,170 books — 1,897 voters
Ghost Wars by Steve CollThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightDiplomacy by Henry KissingerLegacy of Ashes by Tim WeinerThe Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
American Foreign Policy
474 books — 284 voters

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi AliReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiOrientalism by Edward W. SaidFrom Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman
Best Middle East Nonfiction
535 books — 376 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCatch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrAtonement by Ian McEwan
World War II Fiction
1,436 books — 2,071 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniOceans of Trouble by Travis CaseyWhere Are You Now? by Sarah  Connell
Around the World through Fiction
449 books — 184 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenShōgun by James ClavellTai-Pan by James ClavellThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckA Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Transcultural Fiction
421 books — 209 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniLost in Yaba by Walt GleesonNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiShōgun by James Clavell
Best Books on Asia
1,000 books — 831 voters


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