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
63 books — 2,009 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
100 books — 274 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteAll the President’s Men by Carl BernsteinBad Blood by John CarreyrouWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Ou... by Philip Gourevitch
Best Books by Journalists
295 books — 112 voters
GRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS  by Scott  L. NelsonLucky by Scott NelsonThe 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 Darwin
Classic Travelogues
29 books — 31 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
206 books — 195 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 — 88 voters