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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
6,703 books — 8,316 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
3,024 books — 4,391 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Women
3,452 books — 3,916 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittBorn To Rise by Lorna BlakeA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonFirst Time Dad by James MacdonaldLean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,642 books — 3,460 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootSalt by Mark KurlanskyEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
You Read a Book about What?
4,171 books — 2,526 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonColumbine by Dave Cullen
Best True Crime
1,519 books — 2,175 voters

An Accidental Philanthropist by Winsome Dunn McIntoshSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonNew Space Capitalism by Rainer ZitelmannQuiet by Susan Cain
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,314 books — 2,150 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,483 books — 1,883 voters

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserIn Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Food-Related Non-Fiction
1,388 books — 1,753 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
favorite non-fiction
2,998 books — 1,461 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanSingle at Heart by Bella DePaulo
Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
1,336 books — 1,408 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBorn To Rise by Lorna Blake
Best African American Books
1,084 books — 1,353 voters

Night by Elie WieselAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Memoirs by Men
1,825 books — 757 voters
Broken Bonds by J. BreeThe Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One by George Walters-SleyonThe Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume Two by George Walters-SleyonPestilence by Laura ThalassaSavage Bonds by J. Bree
Under the Radar Page-Turners
2,749 books — 747 voters

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffEx Libris by Anne FadimanThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterAdoption Memoirs by Marianne NovyBook Lust by Nancy Pearl
Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading
1,112 books — 693 voters
The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Martian by Andy WeirGone Girl by Gillian FlynnStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelYes Please by Amy Poehler
2015: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2015
1,962 books — 624 voters

Fun Home by Alison BechdelAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsStone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergThe Mayor of Castro Street by Randy ShiltsOdd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman
Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction
837 books — 497 voters
Maus I by Art SpiegelmanPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiFun Home by Alison BechdelThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiStitches by David Small
Best Memoir Graphic Novels
431 books — 487 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassieMarie Antoinette by Antonia FraserI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Female Biographies
1,282 books — 469 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Books about Books and Libraries
852 books — 431 voters

The Happiness Project by Gretchen RubinThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. JacobsAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertJulie and Julia by Julie Powell
A Year in the Life
257 books — 424 voters
Me Before You by Jojo MoyesThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Martian by Andy Weir
2016: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2016
2,180 books — 423 voters

The Doomsday Butcher by S.E. StitcherPoinsettia Girl by Jennifer WizbowskiIn the Shadows of the Blitz by Mark EllisThe Only Possible Solution by Fons BurgerThe Embassy Murders by Mark Ellis
Summer Reading Adventure
1,622 books — 422 voters
Lifelines by Charlie CherryLifelines by Charlie CherryLifelines by Charlie CherryAll Nature Sings by Ben CooperImmortal to the End by Charles Pallaghy
Christian Living/Nonfiction
269 books — 412 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe American Translator by Ahmed AlshuwaikhatThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
Best Medieval History Books
831 books — 402 voters
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBecause of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilloA Land Remembered by Patrick D. SmithThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsSwamplandia! by Karen Russell
Best Books Set in or About Florida
845 books — 366 voters

Life In Instalments by Danielle SartorelliCrossing the Cactus by David C BlivinThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodBig Little Lies by Liane MoriartyA Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
2017: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2017
1,672 books — 364 voters
The Call of the Wild by Jack LondonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerWhite Fang by Jack LondonThe Great Alone by Kristin HannahThe Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Alaska Tales
385 books — 355 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One by George Walters-SleyonThe Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume Two by George Walters-Sleyon
Best Books About Nineteenth Century History
678 books — 345 voters
Yes Please by Amy PoehlerNot That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham#Girlboss by Sophia AmorusoWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Defining Decade by Meg Jay
Nonfiction for Women in their Twenties
386 books — 294 voters

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