A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. SteadMy Heart Is Like a Zoo by Michael  HallDear Zoo by Rod CampbellPolar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr.Our Class Took a Trip to the Zoo by Shirley Neitzel
Children's Zoo Reads
59 books — 48 voters
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverJulie and Julia by Julie PowellThe Unlikely Disciple by Kevin RooseThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionMWF Seeking BFF by Rachel Bertsche
A Year in the Life
195 books — 314 voters

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,098 books — 67,431 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeGod's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène
Best books for an African Safari
475 books — 525 voters

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley JacksonInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriNine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Best Short Stories
1,755 books — 1,050 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtSpook by Mary Roach
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,227 books — 8,076 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Books That Changed My World
3,265 books — 3,184 voters
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Major Award-Winning Fiction Since 1990
248 books — 567 voters

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterThe Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Fantasy Books Set in Two Worlds
639 books — 629 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Crucible by Arthur Miller
Literature of Social Change
433 books — 316 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaMetamorphoses by OvidSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,078 books — 622 voters
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
731 books — 1,890 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Giver by Lois LowryA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Best Young Adult Books
13,055 books — 80,112 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachMy Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte TaylorHow We Die by Sherwin B. NulandGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Medicine and Literature
1,834 books — 1,991 voters