Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke
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The Paris Wife by Paula McLainDreams of Joy by Lisa See
Historical Fiction 2011
118 books — 582 voters

Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie FordShanghai Girls by Lisa SeeStones Into Schools by Greg Mortenson
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1,768 books — 6,927 voters
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Art & Artists in Fiction
970 books — 1,133 voters

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelChronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
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Best for Book Clubs
15,326 books — 19,633 voters

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Female Relative Phenomenon
559 books — 133 voters
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
The series got worse and worse
171 books — 291 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniWater for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Books That Exceeded Your Expectations
15,549 books — 17,548 voters
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Foreign Lands
2,384 books — 2,265 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,265 books — 8,161 voters
Siddhartha by Hermann HesseSeabiscuit by Laura HillenbrandTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I'm glad someone made me read this book
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Night by Elie WieselThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
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Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,214 books — 28,376 voters