Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Com... by MultatuliDe donkere kamer van Damokles by Willem Frederik HermansThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Discovery of Heaven by Harry MulischNooit meer slapen by Willem Frederik Hermans
Dutch Literary Canon
122 books — 90 voters

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonCradle to Cradle by William McDonough
Best Sustainability Nonfiction
400 books — 295 voters
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
1,069 books — 1,199 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 — 1,454 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIn a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Favorite Travel Books
2,018 books — 3,940 voters

The Jade Peony by Wayson ChoyIn the Skin of a Lion by Michael OndaatjeCan You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau BadamiRiver Thieves by Michael CrummeyMidnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates
The Canadian Immigrant Experience
91 books — 29 voters
Funny Boy by Shyam SelvaduraiChinaman by Shehan KarunatilakaAnil's Ghost by Michael OndaatjeThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeReef by Romesh Gunesekera
Sri Lankan English Fiction
106 books — 120 voters

Jurassic Park by Michael CrichtonThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonThe Hunt for Red October by Tom ClancyThe Martian by Andy WeirDaemon by Leinad Zeraus
Best Technothrillers Ever
684 books — 995 voters
Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeOrientalism by Edward W. SaidThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Colonial and Post-colonial Literature
165 books — 68 voters

Brick Lane by Monica AliWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithSmall Island by Andrea LevyThe Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif KureishiThe Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Postcolonial Britain
78 books — 28 voters
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiFusion of Reality by K VariaInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best Diasporic Fiction
20 books — 17 voters


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