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Bad Blood by John CarreyrouBlood and Oil by Bradley HopeBillion Dollar Whale by Tom WrightThe Price of Admission by Daniel GoldenBring Back Our Girls by Drew Hinshaw
Journalism - The Wall Street Journal
79 books — 16 voters
Corrections in Ink by Keri BlakingerOrange Is the New Black by Piper KermanLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough30 Years Behind Bars by Karen GedneyPrisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat
Women's prison memoirs
66 books — 53 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 Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownAngels & Demons by Dan BrownSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovBlack Fire by William Kely McClungThe Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz
Underground Knowledge (fiction and nonfiction)
1,326 books — 606 voters

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,096 books — 2,327 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBad Feminist by Roxane GayThe Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah ArendtSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Let's Dismantle the Patriarchy
286 books — 55 voters

Sister Outsider by Audre LordeBlack Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill CollinsAin't I a Woman by bell hooksSister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-PerryFeminist Theory by bell hooks
Black Feminist/Womanist Studies (nonfiction)
128 books — 107 voters
Fun Home by Alison BechdelWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonTwo or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy AllisonZami by Audre LordeLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough
Lesbian Memoirs
278 books — 116 voters

Fun Home by Alison BechdelAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsStone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergThe Mayor of Castro Street by Randy ShiltsOdd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman
Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction
804 books — 448 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,480 books — 3,457 voters

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta MagnussonThe Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie KondōNight by Elie WieselBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesCheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
Best Nonfiction Under 250 Pages
100 books — 10 voters
Gator Country by Rebecca RennerPlanta Sapiens by Paco CalvoWhat an Owl Knows by Jennifer AckermanThe Underworld by Susan CaseyThe Blue Machine by Helen Czerski
Science Published in Year: 2023
382 books — 43 voters


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