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Pachinko by Min Jin LeeBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahNomadland by Jessica BruderThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinThe Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
100 Notable Books of 2017 - The New York Times
100 books — 93 voters
Pachinko by Min Jin LeeLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Books Written by Asian Authors
458 books — 89 voters

Pachinko by Min Jin LeeInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonChina in Ten Words by Yu Hua
New York Times 52 Books for 52 Places
52 books — 3 voters
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 205 voters

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
NYT 100 Notable Books of 2018
100 books — 82 voters
The Big Sort by Bill BishopDreamland by Sam QuinonesStrangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell HochschildGlass House by Brian Alexander
Books for Post-Election Understanding
199 books — 141 voters

The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsBad Blood by John CarreyrouUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerDear America by Jose Antonio Vargas
Task 5 #ReadHarder 2019
159 books — 48 voters
The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Best Books of 2017
1,736 books — 3,082 voters

Becoming by Michelle Obama
What We've Read So Far in 2019
6,535 books — 699 voters
Educated by Tara Westover
Can't Wait Books of 2018 - Any Genre
189 books — 130 voters

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanThe Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
2017 Librarian Recommended Books
109 books — 195 voters
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2017
226 books — 260 voters

A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Best Books of 2015 - The Critics' Picks
100 books — 22 voters
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. VanceWhen Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Economist - Books of the Year, 2016
52 books — 39 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood1984 by George Orwell
The Post-Trump Big Questions Canon
526 books — 280 voters
A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesSapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Amazon's 2015 Best Books of the Year: The Top 100
100 books — 113 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Books Ever
78,309 books — 291,947 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe1984 by George OrwellInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,339 books — 5,884 voters

Start Something That Matters by Blake MycoskieMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Books to find your purpose
20 books — 20 voters
Banker to the Poor by Muhammad YunusThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Books to Change the World
137 books — 126 voters

Night by Elie Wiesel
World War II Memoirs
366 books — 190 voters
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Books that have kept me up all night
826 books — 730 voters