Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneThe Giver by Lois LowryFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggWalking Across Egypt by Clyde EdgertonBetty Crocker's Cookbook by Betty Crocker
Books My Mom Gave Me
219 books — 37 voters
Letters to Alice by Fay Weldon
Epistolary Fiction
852 books — 825 voters

The World Without Us by Alan WeismanSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonThe Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay GouldThe Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay GouldThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,836 books — 3,595 voters
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootOn Writing by Stephen        KingNight by Elie WieselMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,222 books — 8,064 voters

The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Not Your Mother's Book Club
121 books — 105 voters