The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverShe’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Six Stars
1,500 books — 757 voters
Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelPeace Like a River by Leif Enger
Piranesi and Contemplative fiction
35 books — 6 voters

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Books about Books
1,385 books — 1,519 voters

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Best of Isabel Allende
55 books — 19 voters
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma OluoThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodDark Money by Jane Mayer
The Post-Trump Big Questions Canon
526 books — 276 voters

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Daily Show Reading Club
352 books — 247 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerHerzog by Saul BellowUlysses by James JoyceBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyRabbit at Rest by John Updike
Famous Books I Have Not Read Yet
6 books — 1 voter

Autumn by Ali SmithExit West by Mohsin HamidPachinko by Min Jin LeeThe Power by Naomi AldermanSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
New York Times 2017 Ten Best
10 books — 2 voters
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadThe Association of Small Bombs by Karan MahajanThe Vegetarian by Han KangThe North Water by Ian McGuireAnother Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
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85 books — 7 voters

I Contain Multitudes by Ed YongThe Power of the Other by Henry CloudThe Undoing Project by Michael   LewisDeath's End by Liu CixinAlgorithms to Live By by Brian  Christian
Ten Best for 2016 by The Mission
10 books — 2 voters

Interaction of Color by Josef AlbersColor in Contemporary Painting by Charles LeClair
Best Books About Colors
87 books — 83 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,701 books — 14,259 voters

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughThe Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellThe End of the Affair by Graham GreeneFoundation by Isaac Asimov
75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years
75 books — 8 voters
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksIncognito by David Eagleman
Best Cognitive Science Books
411 books — 496 voters

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Best Novels That Take Place in China
418 books — 1,101 voters