The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
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508 books — 621 voters
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Best Read-Aloud Chapter Books
1,176 books — 1,476 voters

A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
Best American History Books
2,135 books — 2,501 voters

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
This American Life
100 books — 45 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,235 books — 8,067 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
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A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
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478 books — 1,136 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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