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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,090 books — 1,524 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,755 voters

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterFermat's Enigma by Simon SinghFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottThe Code Book by Simon SinghZero by Charles Seife
Best Books About Mathematics
447 books — 665 voters
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth KolbertEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightMaster of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
Pulitzer Prize General Nonfiction Winners and Finalists
137 books — 35 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,221 books — 8,061 voters
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Best Nature Books
1,151 books — 767 voters

This Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Spell of the Sensuous by David AbramSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonWoman and Nature by Susan GriffinThe Carbon Almanac by The Carbon Almanac Network
Waking Up to the Earth and Sky
213 books — 37 voters
Where the Wild Things Were by William StolzenburgWith A Dying Breath by Tony WalkdenA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldFour Fish by Paul GreenbergJaguar by Alan Rabinowitz
Conservation and Animal Science
154 books — 54 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldWinnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
766 books — 1,134 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Greatest Show on Earth by Richard DawkinsWhy Evolution Is True by Jerry A. CoyneYour Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
Best Books on Evolution...
267 books — 216 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best WWII Fiction and Biography
696 books — 579 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,327 books — 119,041 voters


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