A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootLife Unfolding by Jamie A. DaviesJohn Adams by David McCullough
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9,831 books — 22,350 voters
The Martian by Andy WeirReady Player One by Ernest ClineMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
What we've read so far in...2015
9,760 books — 2,147 voters

Guilty by Ann CoulterLet Freedom Ring by Sean HannityScientology by L. Ron HubbardI Want to Tell You by O.J. SimpsonThe Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
The Worst Books of All Time
8,120 books — 19,892 voters
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. ClarkeChildhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Golden Age & New Wave SF
270 books — 207 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Blind Watchmaker by Richard DawkinsWonderful Life by Stephen Jay GouldYour Inner Fish by Neil ShubinGenome by Matt Ridley
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,929 books — 3,627 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott CardThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardDune by Frank Herbert
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,705 books — 25,681 voters

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardUlysses by James JoyceThe Professor's House by Willa Cather
Best Books Ever
78,172 books — 291,536 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneDune by Frank HerbertThe Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Read Them Twice...At Least
14,328 books — 11,910 voters

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherThe Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg ClarkButcher's Crossing by John  WilliamsO Pioneers! by Willa CatherRiders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Best Westerns
1,415 books — 1,577 voters
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Diversity of Life by Edward O. WilsonThe Song of the Dodo by David QuammenNever Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Best Environmental Books
1,092 books — 1,240 voters

Bear Attacks by Stephen Herrero
Best Bear Books
184 books — 82 voters
Walking by Henry David ThoreauWhy Big Fierce Animals Are Rare by Paul ColinvauxA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldNature's Economy by Donald WorsterAnimals Without Backbones by Ralph Buchsbaum
Best Nature Books
1,161 books — 835 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,521 books — 123,816 voters