Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Read Them Twice...At Least
14,409 books — 12,271 voters
Junkyard Planet by Adam MinterCradle to Cradle by William McDonoughHot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. FriedmanGarbology by Edward Humes
Best Environmental Books
1,117 books — 1,291 voters

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam  Johnson
Books on North Korea
136 books — 514 voters

Midnight in Peking by Paul   French
Books set in BEIJING
48 books — 14 voters
The Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightThe Post-American World by Fareed ZakariaDescent into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid
American Foreign Policy
473 books — 291 voters

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Gaze of the Gazelle by Arash Hejazi
Best Middle East Fiction
442 books — 494 voters

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Best Southern Literature
1,413 books — 2,697 voters
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Best Cognitive Science Books
436 books — 538 voters

Little Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNancy Drew by Carolyn KeeneHow the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. SeussJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Favorite books from my childhood
4,524 books — 7,734 voters
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsThe American City  by Alexander Garvin
Top Urban Planning Books of All Time
118 books — 165 voters

Founding Brothers by Joseph J. EllisJohn Adams by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinTruman by David McCulloughBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
Best American History Books
2,302 books — 3,121 voters
The Big Short by Michael   LewisToo Big to Fail by Andrew Ross SorkinLiar's Poker by Michael   LewisBoomerang by Michael   LewisThis Time Is Different by Carmen M. Reinhart
Understanding the Financial Crisis 2008
173 books — 257 voters

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Conscience of a Liberal by Paul KrugmanThe World Is Flat by Thomas L. FriedmanNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichConfessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
968 books — 1,144 voters
The Widow of the South by Robert HicksBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
Best American Civil War Books
1,021 books — 1,063 voters

People of the Book by Geraldine BrooksInés of My Soul by Isabel Allende
Best Historical Fiction
8,247 books — 27,181 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoSnow Falling on Cedars by David GutersonThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,505 books — 16,706 voters

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi AliReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiFrom Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. FriedmanThe Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
Best Middle East Nonfiction
537 books — 378 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,957 books — 125,099 voters