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Top 100 All-Time Best
Project Hail Mary
By:
Andy Weir
The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in)
By:
Colson Whitehead
Finding Tamika
By:
Erika Alexander , and others
Hidden Figures
By:
Margot Lee Shetterly
The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition
By:
Margaret Atwood , and others
Maejor Frequency
By:
Maejor
Mrs. Wickham
By:
Sarah Page
The Kite Runner
By:
Khaled Hosseini
Circe
By:
Madeline Miller
Steve Jobs
By:
Walter Isaacson
I Am Malala
By:
Malala Yousafzai , and others
The Sandman
By:
Neil Gaiman , and others
Top 100 Screen Adaptations
The Godfather
By:
Mario Puzo , and others
Atonement
By:
Ian McEwan
Call Me by Your Name
By:
André Aciman
Schindler's List
By:
Thomas Keneally
To Kill a Mockingbird
By:
Harper Lee
If Beale Street Could Talk
By:
James Baldwin
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
By:
Ken Kesey , and others
Breakfast at Tiffany's
By:
Truman Capote
Room
By:
Emma Donoghue
No Country for Old Men
By:
Cormac McCarthy
The Remains of the Day
By:
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Green Mile
By:
Stephen King
Top 100 Memoirs
Why Fish Don't Exist
By:
Lulu Miller
Hunger
By:
Roxane Gay
Brown Girl Dreaming
By:
Jacqueline Woodson
In the Dream House
By:
Carmen Maria Machado
On Writing
By:
Stephen King
The Woman Warrior
By:
Maxine Hong Kingston
Reading Lolita in Tehran
By:
Azar Nafisi
The Glass Castle
By:
Jeannette Walls
Educated
By:
Tara Westover
Shrill
By:
Lindy West
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
By:
Anne Frank
The Yellow House
By:
Sarah M. Broom
Top 100 Classics
Invisible Man
By:
Ralph Ellison
Moby Dick
By:
Herman Melville
Carrie
By:
Stephen King
North and South
By:
Elizabeth Gaskell
Anna Karenina
By:
Leo Tolstoy
The Count of Monte Cristo
By:
Alexandre Dumas
East of Eden
By:
John Steinbeck
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By:
Maya Angelou
Jane Eyre
By:
Charlotte Brontë
The Godfather
By:
Mario Puzo , and others
Middlemarch
By:
George Eliot
Top 100 Well-Being
The Worthy Project
By:
Meadow DeVor
Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition)
By:
Cheryl Strayed
The Light We Carry
By:
Michelle Obama
Self-Care for Black Women
By:
Oludara Adeeyo
This Year Will Be Different
By:
Domonique Bertolucci
Year of Yes
By:
Shonda Rhimes
More Than Enough
By:
Elaine Welteroth
You Are a Badass
By:
Jen Sincero
The Courage to Be Disliked
By:
Ichiro Kishimi , and others
You Gotta Be You
By:
Brandon Kyle Goodman
Rejection Proof
By:
Jia Jiang
Quit
By:
Annie Duke
Top 100 Romance
Pride and Prejudice
By:
Jane Austen
Red, White & Royal Blue
By:
Casey McQuiston
The Stand-In
By:
Lily Chu
Book Lovers
By:
Emily Henry
Lady Chatterley's Lover
By:
D. H. Lawrence
Getting Schooled
By:
Emma Chase
Someone to Love
By:
Mary Balogh
Jane Eyre
By:
Charlotte Brontë
The Governess Game
By:
Tessa Dare
Priest: A Love Story
By:
Sierra Simone
Dial A for Aunties
By:
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Love at First
By:
Kate Clayborn
Top 100 LGBTQIA+
Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For
By:
Alison Bechdel , and others
Over the Top
By:
Jonathan Van Ness
Melissa
By:
Alex Gino
Red, White & Royal Blue
By:
Casey McQuiston
The House in the Cerulean Sea
By:
TJ Klune
Me
By:
Elton John
Less
By:
Andrew Sean Greer
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
By:
David Sedaris
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
By:
Benjamin Alire Saenz
And Tango Makes Three
By:
Justin Richardson , and others
Ace
By:
Angela Chen
Top 100 Fantasy
Jade City
By:
Fonda Lee
The Changeling
By:
Victor LaValle
Oathbringer
By:
Brandon Sanderson
Who Fears Death
By:
Nnedi Okorafor
The Final Empire
By:
Brandon Sanderson
Spinning Silver
By:
Naomi Novik
The Eye of the World
By:
Robert Jordan
The Land: Founding: A LitRPG Saga
By:
Aleron Kong
The Name of the Wind
By:
Patrick Rothfuss
The Hobbit
By:
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring
By:
J. R. R. Tolkien
Unsouled
By:
Will Wight
Top 100 Kids
The Sesame Street Podcast with Foley and Friends
By:
Sesame Workshop
The One and Only Ivan
By:
Katherine Applegate , and others
Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls
By:
Kaela Rivera
Dragons Love Tacos
By:
Adam Rubin
Because of Winn-Dixie
By:
Kate DiCamillo
Where the Wild Things Are
By:
Maurice Sendak
Letters from Camp
By:
Jamie Lee Curtis , and others
The 1619 Project
By:
Nikole Hannah-Jones , and others
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Book 1
By:
J.K. Rowling
Matilda
By:
Roald Dahl
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
By:
C. S. Lewis
Esperanza Rising
By:
Pam Munoz Ryan
Top 100 Series
Bill Hodges Trilogy
6 titles
Outlander
35 titles
An Ember in the Ashes
8 titles
The Hunger Games
5 titles
You
9 titles
The Kiss Quotient Series
4 titles
Legacy of Orïsha
6 titles
Garden Heights
6 titles
Royal Spyness
19 titles
Bobiverse
5 titles
A Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International Novel
13 titles
Chief Inspector Gamache/Three Pines
40 titles
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Romance
Fiction
Mystery & Thriller
Kids
Memoir
Self-Development
Well-Being
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Spirituality
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Aaron S.
Comedy, Fiction
Alanna M.
Bios & Memoirs
Edwin D.
Spanish
Emily C.
Kids, YA
Haley H.
Debuts, Memoir
Kat J.
True Crime
Katie O.
YA, Romance
Madeline A.
Memoir, Fiction
Margaret H.
Romance
Melissa B.
YA, Fantasy
Michael C.
Nonfiction
Mysia H.
Mystery
Nicole R.
Horror
Patty R.
Romance
Phoebe N.
Fiction, Comedy
Rachael X.
Well-Being
Sam D.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Seth H.
Fantasy, Memoir
Tricia F.
Fiction, Debuts
Yvonne D.
Memoir
Best of the Year '24
James
By:
Percival Everett
George Orwell’s 1984
By:
George Orwell , and others
First Lie Wins
By:
Ashley Elston
Supercommunicators
By:
Charles Duhigg
The Women
By:
Kristin Hannah
An Unfinished Love Story
By:
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Listen for the Lie
By:
Amy Tintera
Wandering Stars
By:
Tommy Orange
Funny Story
By:
Emily Henry
Annie Bot
By:
Sierra Greer
Drop Dead
By:
Lily Chu
Legacy
By:
Uché Blackstock MD
Here One Moment
By:
Liane Moriarty
Revenge of the Tipping Point
By:
Malcolm Gladwell
From Here to the Great Unknown
By:
Lisa Marie Presley , and others
Voyage of the Damned
By:
Frances White
We Play Games
By:
Sarah A. Denzil
Lovely One
By:
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Bluebeard
By:
Jim Clemente , and others
Imminent
By:
Luis Elizondo
Martyr!
By:
Kaveh Akbar
Editors' Picks for December
The Answer Is No
By:
Fredrik Backman , and others
The Let Them Theory
By:
Mel Robbins
My Time to Stand
By:
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard , and others
Wind and Truth
By:
Brandon Sanderson
Five Stolen Rings
By:
Gracie Ruth Mitchell
Alive and Well Enough Continues
By:
Jeff Daniels
The Lost Past of Billy McQueen
By:
Neil Alexander
Say No More
By:
Caroline Overington
Know Your Newlywed
By:
Heather Taylor , and others
Find Your Creative Courage
By:
Clare Bowditch
I Made It Out of Clay
By:
Beth Kander
The Close-Up
By:
Pip Drysdale
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