Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Best Family Sagas
681 books — 744 voters
The Martian by Andy WeirThe End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Best Audio Narration
1,595 books — 1,094 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
8,063 books — 26,730 voters
The Martian by Andy Weir
Best Audiobooks Ever
1,980 books — 2,843 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
15,458 books — 19,962 voters
Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
Book Group Worthy Titles for 2014
243 books — 1,192 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 — 4,187 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
2,013 books — 2,269 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
1,372 books — 1,713 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
5,428 books — 5,136 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)
6,398 books — 8,179 voters