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
1,001 books — 1,431 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,746 books — 1,617 voters
In Search of Respect by Philippe BourgoisThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanLiquidated by Karen HoDeath Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-HughesArgonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronisław Malinowski
Good Ethnography
139 books — 100 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,203 books — 28,367 voters

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond1491 by Charles C. MannCollapse by Jared DiamondA Primate's Memoir by Robert M. SapolskyKon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Best Popular Anthropology Books
358 books — 268 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Stories For Book Lovers
8,357 books — 8,251 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
1,068 books — 1,192 voters
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Best Progressive Reads
1,060 books — 716 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownAngels & Demons by Dan    Brown1984 by George OrwellThe Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Conspiracy Fiction
1,267 books — 1,321 voters
A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnAmerica (The Book) by Jon   StewartMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling1776 by David McCullough
The Daily Show Reading Club
338 books — 230 voters


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