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Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichAll Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotKitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren HoughAll Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs
813 books — 404 voters
The Happiness Project by Gretchen RubinThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. JacobsAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertJulie and Julia by Julie Powell
A Year in the Life
195 books — 314 voters

Yes Please by Amy PoehlerNot That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham#Girlboss by Sophia AmorusoWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Defining Decade by Meg Jay
Non-Fiction for Women in their Twenties
350 books — 275 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingLean In by Sheryl SandbergThe Reason I Jump by Naoki HigashidaDrift by Rachel Maddow
Books Rec'd By The Daily Show
335 books — 272 voters

Hitchcock/Truffaut by François TruffautEasy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter BiskindPictures at a Revolution by Mark HarrisRebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,... by Robert RodríguezThe Great Movies by Roger Ebert
Books ABOUT Movies
834 books — 271 voters
Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige HillUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerEscape by Carolyn JessopUnorthodox by Deborah FeldmanLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough
Small, Offbeat Religion Memoirs
241 books — 271 voters

Ghost Wars by Steve CollThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightDiplomacy by Henry KissingerLegacy of Ashes by Tim WeinerThe Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
American Foreign Policy
456 books — 268 voters
Steve Jobs by Walter IsaacsonShoe Dog by Phil KnightElon Musk by Ashlee VanceThe Lean Startup by Eric RiesThe Everything Store by Brad Stone
Business Biographies and Memoirs
230 books — 253 voters

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth KolbertSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
The Natural World: Natural Science and Natural History for Adults
771 books — 248 voters
I Wish You All the Best by Mason DeaverGender Queer by Maia KobabeThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinOrlando by Virginia WoolfAncillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Non-Binary (Genderqueer, Genderfluid, Gender-Unspecified, etc) Fiction and Memoirs
315 books — 246 voters

Forget the Fairy Tale and Find Your Happiness by Deb MillerIllegal by John DennehyMattie, Milo, and Me by Anne AbelGlass Half Full by Sarah Jane ButfieldJourney to the West by Biao Wang
Indie Memoirs/Autobiographies, Non-fiction
135 books — 243 voters
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasThe Great Alone by Kristin HannahEducated by Tara Westover
2018: What People Born in the 1980's Have Read in 2018
1,671 books — 234 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodBig Little Lies by Liane MoriartyA Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanScrappy Little Nobody by Anna KendrickHidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
2017: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2017
1,631 books — 233 voters
A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnAmerica (The Book) by Jon StewartMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling1776 by David McCullough
The Daily Show Reading Club
338 books — 232 voters

A Night to Remember by Walter LordTitanic by Don LynchThe Discovery of the Titanic by Robert D. BallardThe Night Lives On by Walter LordThe Watch That Ends the Night by Allan Wolf
Best Titanic Books
164 books — 224 voters
Clara Bow by David StennMy Autobiography by Charles ChaplinMe by Katharine HepburnFalling Waters by Gary D. HenryLulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
Best of Old Hollywood
469 books — 221 voters

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer102 Minutes by Jim DwyerThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightThe Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFedeThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
9/11 Related
247 books — 220 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
A Journey Through Literary America
151 books — 218 voters

Bossypants by Tina FeyIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingYes Please by Amy PoehlerBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahDad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
Books by Comics
193 books — 218 voters
H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Genius of Birds by Jennifer AckermanWesley the Owl by Stacey O'BrienThe Wild Birds by Emily StrelowThe Life of Birds by David Attenborough
Books for Bird Lovers
523 books — 207 voters

The Brave Art of Motherhood by Rachel Marie MartinStrong As a Mother by Kate RopeBelly Laughs by Jenny McCarthyThe Second Nine Months by Vicki GlembockiOperating Instructions by Anne Lamott
Motherhood
245 books — 205 voters
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassDreams from My Father by Barack ObamaBlack Boy by Richard Wright
African American Lives
455 books — 202 voters

Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsProzac Nation by Elizabeth WurtzelFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonJunky by William S. BurroughsThe Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx
Drug Memoir A List
170 books — 201 voters
Night by Elie WieselThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneMaus I by Art Spiegelman
Essential Books on the Holocaust
197 books — 194 voters

The Crucible by Arthur MillerThe Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine HoweThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George SpeareThe Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen KentA Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi
Best of the Salem Witch Trials (fiction and nonfiction)
95 books — 193 voters
West with the Night by Beryl MarkhamOut of Africa by Isak DinesenMy Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-NéelBorn Free by Joy AdamsonA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird
Trailblazing Women Adventurers
535 books — 179 voters

Illegal by John DennehyA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonOne Day at a Time 2017 by Hollie Bell-SchinzingPromise of Departure by L.W. MontgomeryWild by Cheryl Strayed
Best Adventure Travel Memoir
273 books — 174 voters
Bossypants by Tina FeyWishful Drinking by Carrie FisherJust Kids by Patti SmithIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingThe Funny Thing Is... by Ellen DeGeneres
Female Celebrity Books
179 books — 161 voters

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan PappéMornings in Jenin by Susan AbulhawaPalestinian Dissident by Sam ShomanPalestine by Jimmy CarterMen in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani
Best Books about Palestine (fiction and nonfiction)
246 books — 161 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniBorn to Run by Christopher McDougallForrest Gump by Winston GroomWho She Is by Diane ByingtonMarathon Man by William Goldman
I WAS RUNNING....
177 books — 152 voters

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