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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
6,867 books — 8,778 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
3,073 books — 4,517 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
3,513 books — 4,117 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittBorn To Rise by Lorna  BlakeCounsel, the Courtroom Is Open by Mark C. ZaudererA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonLean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,869 books — 3,742 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?
4,203 books — 2,574 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
2,425 books — 2,224 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
1,535 books — 2,223 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
1,524 books — 1,955 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
1,268 books — 1,712 voters
Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor Bombov
favorite non-fiction
3,055 books — 1,591 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
1,382 books — 1,517 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
1,099 books — 1,366 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
2,759 books — 826 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
1,842 books — 807 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
446 books — 501 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
1,294 books — 494 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
271 books — 449 voters
The Doomsday Butcher by S.E. StitcherIn the Shadows of the Blitz by Mark   EllisPoinsettia Girl by Jennifer WizbowskiThe Embassy Murders by Mark   EllisThe Only Possible Solution by Fons Burger
Summer Reading Adventure
1,639 books — 444 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
391 books — 366 voters

The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtBorn To Rise by Lorna  BlakeA Boy at War by Bill MaierWho We Met on the Way to Stanford by Richard  Phillip Sinay
Coming-of-Age Memoirs
469 books — 327 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
394 books — 311 voters

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