How Democracies Die by Steven LevitskyRussian Roulette by Michael IsikoffFire and Fury by Michael  WolffThe Age of Eisenhower by William I. HitchcockThe Good Neighbor by Maxwell King
History Published in Year: 2018
408 books — 66 voters
The Radium Girls by Kate  MooreCode Girls by Liza MundyDear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie SpenceA House Full of Females by Laurel Thatcher UlrichThe Meaning of Michelle by Veronica Chambers
2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
246 books — 87 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggAnd the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
GLBT books made into films
183 books — 62 voters
The Color of Water by James   McBrideUp from Slavery by Booker T. WashingtonThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois12 Years a Slave by Solomon NorthupThe Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
African American Lives
457 books — 204 voters

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtFirestarter by Stephen        KingThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinPrairie Fires by Caroline Fraser
Smoke and Fire
1,109 books — 51 voters
Cold Mountain by Charles FrazierLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John FowlesThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen CraneMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
Best 1800s Historical Fiction
454 books — 274 voters

The Help by Kathryn StockettMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantWatership Down by Richard  Adams
Favorite Fiction
570 books — 283 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Firm by John GrishamThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
White Collar Holler
128 books — 96 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Actual Best Books Ever
244 books — 134 voters

James by Percival EverettTravels with Charley by John SteinbeckBossypants by Tina FeyWater for Elephants by Sara GruenA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Smart & Funny
179 books — 333 voters
Born a Crime by Trevor NoahEducated by Tara WestoverSeriously... I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneresA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonI Am America by Stephen Colbert
Funny Memoir/Autobiography
449 books — 736 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own M... by Catherynne M. ValenteStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
SFF: Best Settings
37 books — 10 voters
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. BeagleThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Golem and the Jinni by Helene WeckerFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
SFF: Best Prose
35 books — 14 voters

The Return of the King by J.R.R. TolkienA Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
SFF: Best Characters
90 books — 16 voters
Rocket Boys by Homer HickamThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckThe Devil Is Here in These Hills by James R. GreenColored People by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
West Virginia
210 books — 91 voters

What a Book! by Tom T. HallShut Your Monkey by Danny GregoryTattoo a Banana by Phil HansenDon't Buy Too Many Green Bananas by Delores M. WarnerGarfield Goes Bananas by Jim Davis
Bananas
183 books — 22 voters

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouWhere Men Win Glory by Jon KrakauerGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenQB by Steve     YoungTuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,092 books — 1,951 voters

The Library Book by Susan OrleanFirestarter by Stephen        KingBuses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonDevil in the Grove by Gilbert KingBurning the Books by Richard Ovenden
That Fire Was No Accident!
193 books — 27 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczySlammerkin by Emma DonoghueThese Is My Words by Nancy E. Turner
18th Century Historical Fiction
163 books — 71 voters

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Granite Falls by Eva IbbotsonThe Haunting of America by William J. Birnes
“The Haunting of...”
248 books — 28 voters


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