Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Best Family Sagas
635 books — 679 voters
The Martian by Andy WeirThe End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Best Audio Narration
1,574 books — 1,078 voters

Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Best Historical Fiction
7,574 books — 25,849 voters
The Martian by Andy Weir
Best Audiobooks Ever
1,973 books — 2,838 voters

Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Best for Book Clubs
15,086 books — 19,055 voters
Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
Book Group Worthy Titles for 2014
243 books — 1,193 voters

Life After Life by Kate AtkinsonThe Light Between Oceans by M.L. StedmanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanLexicon by Max Barry
Best Beach Reads 2013
2,204 books — 4,189 voters
Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseComplications by Atul GawandeThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanBetter by Atul Gawande
Medicine and Literature
1,882 books — 2,037 voters

The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanKitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainMy Life in France by Julia ChildEating Animals by Jonathan Safran FoerOn Food and Cooking by Harold McGee
Food-Related Non-Fiction
1,228 books — 1,635 voters
Complications by Atul GawandeFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Know-It-All by A.J. JacobsWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,291 books — 4,510 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip Gourevitch
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,256 books — 8,072 voters