The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
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494 books — 524 voters
Epitaph for a Peach by David Mas Masumoto
Down on the Farm
229 books — 231 voters

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Sailing Cruising
281 books — 199 voters

Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Desert Islands
133 books — 163 voters
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
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421 books — 677 voters

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The series got worse and worse
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Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Worst Books I Ever Read
335 books — 267 voters

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Best Books for a Baby Shower!
687 books — 546 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Favorite Travel Books
2,047 books — 3,958 voters

Holes by Louis SacharMy Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Best Books for Teen Boys
1,452 books — 1,559 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Best Comedic Science Ficttion Books
624 books — 1,198 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteWatership Down by Richard  AdamsAnimal Farm by George OrwellBunnicula by Deborah HoweThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Best Talking-Animal Books
716 books — 725 voters
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
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1,441 books — 2,107 voters

Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
Best Heroine in a Fantasy Book
1,493 books — 1,798 voters
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,204 books — 2,085 voters

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Best American Civil War Books
1,015 books — 1,018 voters
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Best New Author Debuts
420 books — 605 voters

Never Cry Wolf by Farley MowatA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Tales of Adventure
516 books — 477 voters
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Best of Banned and Challenged Books
217 books — 280 voters

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
A Buddhist Reading List
922 books — 1,196 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Fantasy Classics
303 books — 581 voters

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakSylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
Caldecott Medal Winners
91 books — 458 voters
Dune by Frank HerbertRingworld by Larry NivenSpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott CardThe Uplift War by David BrinStartide Rising by David Brin
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89 books — 1,624 voters

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourtA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Memoirs by Men
1,778 books — 704 voters
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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521 books — 2,296 voters

The Postman by David Brin
Dystopia!
1,232 books — 2,781 voters
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
937 books — 1,104 voters


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