Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell
Best Canadian Literature
2,332 books — 1,147 voters
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,208 books — 8,952 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottMatilda by Roald DahlCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Favorite books from my childhood
4,421 books — 7,428 voters
The Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienMonkey Bridge by Lan CaoDispatches by Michael HerrIf I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien
Best Literature About the Vietnam War
329 books — 636 voters

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler WarnerSold by Patricia McCormickThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Best Young Adult Books
13,096 books — 80,175 voters
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenA Child Called "It" by Dave PelzerI Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-PurcellWasted by Marya Hornbacher
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
703 books — 1,054 voters

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchNight by Elie Wiesel
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,226 books — 8,060 voters
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyCity of Bones by Cassandra ClareGone Girl by Gillian FlynnDivergent by Veronica Roth
Best Beach Reads 2013
2,203 books — 4,189 voters

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Best Books of 2011
2,669 books — 6,705 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathProzac Nation by Elizabeth WurtzelIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteRunning with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Psychological Themes
207 books — 93 voters

The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes by Barbara J. ScotLittle Princes by Conor GrennanArresting God In Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay
Nepal
116 books — 78 voters
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
autism: fiction AND non-fiction
254 books — 234 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayCatch-22 by Joseph HellerA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Best War Novels
1,671 books — 1,389 voters

When She Woke by Hillary JordanThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodA Doll's House by Henrik IbsenAntigone by SophoclesIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Best Feminist Books
2,517 books — 3,521 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Hours by Michael CunninghamFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,772 books — 2,168 voters
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick NessThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne Collins
YA Dystopia Novels
1,790 books — 11,249 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,376 voters
Coming Out Straight by Richard CohenFight Club by Chuck PalahniukNight by Elie WieselIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteSybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,196 books — 11,297 voters

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. WodehouseRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsLife With Jeeves by P.G. WodehouseLife at Blandings by P.G. WodehouseWhere the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Best Humorous Books
4,327 books — 7,891 voters
First Kill Your Family by Peter EichstaedtSlave by Damien LewisWar Child by Emmanuel JalWhat Is the What by Dave EggersWhen Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him
Child Rights
79 books — 55 voters

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield JamisonNight Falls Fast by Kay Redfield JamisonThe Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. SaksMy Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte TaylorGirl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Memoirs of Madness
294 books — 375 voters
Bare Feet, Iron Will by James G. ZumwaltThe Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly MamThe Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhThe Quiet American by Graham GreeneChildren of Cambodia's Killing Fields by Dith Pran
Cambodia and Vietnam
214 books — 161 voters

The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniShantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Best South Asian Fiction
734 books — 1,894 voters