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Playing Ball by Vernon DavisWhere Men Win Glory by Jon KrakauerThe Last Folk Hero by Jeff PearlmanThrough My Eyes by Tim TebowBelichick by Ian O'Connor
Must Read Memoirs
1,220 books — 795 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselSchindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
World War II/Holocaust Fiction & Non-fiction
940 books — 727 voters

Unlock Your Deliverance by Kathryn KrickThe Purpose Driven Life by Rick WarrenBody of Proof by Jeremiah J. JohnstonLiving Fearless by Jamie WinshipThe Bait Of Satan by John Bevere
Best Positive Change Books
1,078 books — 697 voters
Night by Elie WieselAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Memoirs by Men
1,676 books — 646 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienMatterhorn by Karl MarlantesDispatches by Michael HerrA Rumor of War by Philip CaputoThe Quiet American by Graham Greene
Best Literature About the Vietnam War
329 books — 637 voters
Lone Survivor by Marcus LuttrellBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseGeneration Kill by Evan WrightThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Best Modern Day Military Accounts
434 books — 586 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best WWII Fiction and Biography
696 books — 580 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Ultimate Human Secrets - The Hidden Power in our Mysterio... by Ramzi NajjarThe You Beyond You by Ramzi NajjarTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Horizon Expanding Books
914 books — 560 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirBad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Women & Gender Studies
1,459 books — 544 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathDarkness Visible by William StyronThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Noonday Demon by Andrew SolomonThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Books Worth Reading on Depression (fiction and nonfiction)
454 books — 530 voters

The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Martian by Andy WeirGone Girl by Gillian FlynnStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelYes Please by Amy Poehler
2015: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2015
1,903 books — 518 voters
Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseThe Longest Day by Cornelius RyanAn Army at Dawn by Rick AtkinsonWith the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge
Best World War II History (nonfiction)
674 books — 492 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Italy
971 books — 488 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellU.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding FathersAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek
Best Books For Freedom Lovers
803 books — 488 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerHiroshima by John HerseyThe Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
World War Two - Firsthand Accounts (nonfiction)
658 books — 450 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Vicarious Thrills
385 books — 429 voters

Maus I by Art SpiegelmanPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiFun Home by Alison BechdelStitches by David SmallThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Best Memoir Graphic Novels
382 books — 426 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassieMarie Antoinette by Antonia FraserThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
Female Biographies
1,248 books — 412 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Top 100 Books to Read Before College
545 books — 403 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankJourney to the West by Biao WangEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Life in a Foreign Country
792 books — 389 voters

Bossypants by Tina FeyStories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob LoweYes Please by Amy PoehlerConfessions of a Prairie Bitch by Alison ArngrimIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
Best Show Business Memoirs/Biographies
421 books — 380 voters
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline WinspearThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettHer Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen
Best Books to Make into a PBS Series
457 books — 376 voters

Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren HoughGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Unsettling Memoirs & Biographies
522 books — 373 voters
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani ChokshiDescendant of the Crane by Joan HeOn the Come Up by Angie ThomasWe Hunt the Flame by Hafsah FaizalWith the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
2019 Books by Authors of Color
342 books — 373 voters

Me Before You by Jojo MoyesThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Martian by Andy Weir
2016: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2016
2,127 books — 361 voters
Speak by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodSome Boys by Patty BlountThe Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangThe V Girl by Mya Robarts
Breaking the Silence: Talking About Violence Against Women
469 books — 343 voters

Natasha by Suzanne FinstadStories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob LoweMe by Katharine HepburnBossypants by Tina FeyDiana by Andrew Morton
Celebrity Biography
944 books — 328 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Books I think are great
876 books — 312 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
My Favourite Non Fiction Books
1,376 books — 257 voters
Redeemed By Fire by C.J. BahrOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Woman From Death Row by Peter HogenkampI Am the Messenger by Markus ZusakPoet Anderson ...of Nightmares by Tom DeLonge
Book Is Great With A Love Story On The Side
204 books — 177 voters

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