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737 books — 497 voters
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The Mind
436 books — 462 voters

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7,217 books — 28,368 voters
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Best Running (non-instructional) Books
229 books — 558 voters

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Best YA Chicklit
569 books — 1,161 voters
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Best Japanese Books
776 books — 3,253 voters

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Best Graphic Novels
3,459 books — 6,778 voters
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The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,578 books — 18,686 voters