A Decade of Hit Books

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Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandEndurance by Alfred LansingInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Best True Survival Stories
437 books — 560 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIsaac's Storm by Erik LarsonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickA Night to Remember by Walter LordAlive by Piers Paul Read
Non-fiction Disaster Books
330 books — 333 voters

The Frontlines of Peace by Severine AutesserreBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenMy War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony LoydA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtSketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers
Conflict-Zone Journalism
286 books — 145 voters
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Learn About History
460 books — 187 voters

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi AliReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiOrientalism by Edward W. SaidFrom Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman
Best Middle East Nonfiction
537 books — 378 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Magical Realism
460 books — 687 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,373 books — 4,697 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsNight by Elie WieselAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,700 books — 8,292 voters

Night by Elie WieselThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklWild by Cheryl StrayedLucky by Scott Nelson
Most Compelling Memoirs
285 books — 167 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardDune by Frank HerbertFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanHyperion by Dan Simmons
Favorite Novels Which Won the Hugo Award
90 books — 1,632 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardDoomsday Book by Connie WillisNeuromancer by William Gibson
Hugo Award for Best Novel
76 books — 154 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann HesseLord of the Flies by William Golding
Nobel Laureates
674 books — 576 voters


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