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If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'BrienWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreChickenhawk by Robert MasonFrom Baghdad, With Love by Jay KopelmanMinefields and miniskirts by Siobhán McHugh
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,149 books — 2,422 voters
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'BrienJarhead by Anthony SwoffordFrom Baghdad, With Love by Jay Kopelman
Best Modern Day Military Accounts
441 books — 592 voters

If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'BrienChickenhawk by Robert MasonThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienMinefields and miniskirts by Siobhán McHughThe Long Gray Line by Rick Atkinson
Best Literature About the Vietnam War
331 books — 638 voters
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Best Talking-Animal Books
708 books — 683 voters

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffA Pound of Paper by John BaxterThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Books about Books
1,384 books — 1,519 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,851 voters

First They Killed My Father by Loung UngOdd Thomas by Dean KoontzMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultThe Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth SteinFrom Baghdad, With Love by Jay Kopelman
Books that Made You Cry!
3,357 books — 7,965 voters
Curveball by Bob DroginMinefields and miniskirts by Siobhán McHughA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,239 books — 8,067 voters

His Illegal Self by Peter CareyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Best Audio Books
322 books — 297 voters
Odd Thomas by Dean KoontzLife Expectancy by Dean KoontzOdd Hours by Dean KoontzOne Door Away from Heaven by Dean KoontzThe Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz
Best Dean Koontz Books
91 books — 902 voters

Size 14 Is Not Fat Either by Meg CabotQueen of Babble by Meg Cabot
Best Audiobooks
1,574 books — 1,129 voters
The Feiner Points of Leadership by Michael FeinerNice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office by Lois P. FrankelNew Ideas from Dead CEOs by Todd G. BuchholzThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellThe Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Best books for business
310 books — 321 voters

Sparkles by Louise BagshaweThe Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim EdwardsThe Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson BraunSize 14 Is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot
Favorite Chick-Lit
2,400 books — 4,618 voters
Absolutely Faking It by Tiana TemplemanHoneymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner
Favorite Travel Books
2,026 books — 3,940 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Best South Asian Fiction
737 books — 1,903 voters
Don't Tell Mom I Work On The Rigs by Paul CarterIf I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'BrienChickenhawk by Robert MasonFrom Baghdad, With Love by Jay KopelmanFat, Forty, and Fired by Nigel Marsh
Memoirs by Men
1,714 books — 676 voters

The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsChickenhawk by Robert MasonBetween The Battles by Helen NolanAbsolutely Faking It by Tiana TemplemanDon't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Pla... by Paul Carter
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,876 books — 6,396 voters
The Running Man by Richard Bachman
Best of Stephen King
178 books — 3,876 voters

Between The Battles by Helen NolanThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Hospital by the River by Catherine HamlinI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Memoirs by Women
3,056 books — 3,084 voters
The Distant Land of My Father by Bo CaldwellTai-Pan by James Clavell
Best Historical Fiction
7,448 books — 25,643 voters

Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote
The Worst Books of All Time
8,096 books — 19,873 voters