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
61 books — 1,990 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
99 books — 270 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
287 books — 96 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 DarwinSailing Alone around the World by Joshua SlocumThe Travels by Marco Polo
Classic Travelogues
27 books — 21 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
185 books — 164 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 — 81 voters