Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Booker Prize Winners
73 books — 2,016 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
99 books — 272 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteAll the President’s Men by Carl BernsteinWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Ou... by Philip GourevitchBad Blood by John Carreyrou
Best Books by Journalists
288 books — 105 voters
The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark TwainTwo Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.Voyage of the Beagle by Charles DarwinGRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS  by Scott  NelsonLucky by Scott Nelson
Classic Travelogues
29 books — 25 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteJourney to the West by Biao  WangThe Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons by Sophie Neville
Best Narrative Nonfiction
194 books — 174 voters
Hiroshima by John HerseyThe Powers That Be by David HalberstamWhy It's Kicking Off Everywhere by Paul  MasonInside Story by Julia GoldbergPicture by Lillian Ross
Best News Writing and Reporting
12 books — 4 voters

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodAtonement by Ian McEwanOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodRoom by Emma Donoghue
Man Booker Shortlist
272 books — 84 voters