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
61 books — 41 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
238 books — 366 voters

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,460 books — 69,732 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeGod's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène
Best books for an African Safari
476 books — 524 voters

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley JacksonInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriNine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Best Short Stories
1,767 books — 1,079 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)
6,267 books — 8,081 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
3,287 books — 3,254 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
252 books — 568 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
669 books — 632 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Crucible by Arthur Miller
Literature of Social Change
435 books — 314 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaMetamorphoses by OvidSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,086 books — 623 voters
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
755 books — 1,921 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
13,252 books — 80,378 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
1,965 books — 2,139 voters