Holes by Louis SacharA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The Most Deserving Newbery
104 books — 2,990 voters
The Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Best Humorous Books
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JavaScript by Douglas Crockford
Best JavaScript Books
40 books — 90 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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1,831 books — 3,588 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,226 books — 8,077 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Star Wars Trilogy by George LucasThe Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
Computers in Literature
233 books — 232 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Books about Books
1,378 books — 1,515 voters

Quiet by Susan Cain
books from TED
95 books — 367 voters
Meditations by Marcus AureliusA Guide to the Good Life by William B. IrvineThe Enchiridion of Epictetus by Epictetus
Books on Stoic Philosophy
40 books — 61 voters

Gandhi the Man by Eknath EaswaranMeditations by Marcus Aurelius
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,764 books — 6,293 voters
Flatland by Edwin A. AbbottThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,253 books — 24,500 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,790 books — 49,745 voters