The Christmas Book Hunt by Jenny Colgan
Books about Books and Libraries
827 books — 389 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,273 books — 5,233 voters

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Best Young Adult Realistic Novels
2,670 books — 12,176 voters
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Best YA Chicklit
570 books — 1,162 voters

Navigating Early by Clare VanderpoolEscape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
Newbery 2014
121 books — 472 voters

The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanBatman by Jeph LoebPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Required Reading Graphic Novels
1,173 books — 2,013 voters
The Shining Girls by Lauren BeukesThe First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
The Best Time Travel Books of All Time
823 books — 1,698 voters

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
500 Essential Graphic Novels
939 books — 863 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Best Books on Evolution...
267 books — 216 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Trial by Franz Kafka
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,320 books — 5,847 voters
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,762 books — 26,013 voters

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Best Humorous Books
4,338 books — 7,944 voters
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
Zombies!
1,667 books — 4,320 voters

Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny  Lawson
Funny Women Memoirs
456 books — 1,554 voters
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Scandinavian/Nordic Mysteries
318 books — 680 voters

The Beatles by Hunter Davies
Best Books on Rock and Roll
891 books — 1,278 voters
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Most Difficult Novels
589 books — 2,042 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,367 voters
The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsBlackout by Sarah Hepola
Memoirs by Women
3,032 books — 3,039 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Newbery 2013
131 books — 1,296 voters
The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsMaus I by Art SpiegelmanThe Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,848 books — 6,371 voters

White Coat, Black Hat by Carl ElliottStiff by Mary RoachThe Great Starvation Experiment by Todd TuckerMutants by Armand Marie Leroi
Medicine and Literature
1,850 books — 2,012 voters
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
Best Feminist Fiction
1,499 books — 2,673 voters

I Was Dora Suarez by Derek RaymondLet the Right One In by John Ajvide LindqvistLost Souls by Poppy Z. BriteThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonFledgling by Octavia E. Butler
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,214 books — 11,334 voters
Batman by Jeph LoebBatman by Jeph LoebBatman by Jeph Loeb
Best of Batman
624 books — 932 voters

The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanBatman by Jeph Loeb
Graphic Novels That Rocked My World
422 books — 221 voters
A Monster Calls by Patrick NessOkay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
Newbery 2012
145 books — 654 voters


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