1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K. Rowling
    4.7
  2. The God of the Woods Liz Moore
    4
  3. Pachinko Min Jin Lee
    4.3
  4. These Precious Days: Essays Ann Patchett
    4.6
  5. The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
    4.1
  6. Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland Patrick Radden Keefe
    4.5
  7. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir Natasha Trethewey
    4.3
  8. Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin
    4.7
  9. Moby-Dick Herman Melville
    3.6
  10. All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel Anthony Doerr
    4.2
  11. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Patrick Radden Keefe
    4.6
  12. Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
    4
  13. John Adams David McCullough
    4.2
  14. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Elizabeth Kolbert
    4.3
  15. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, Part I - 1954-63 Taylor Branch
    4.7
  16. The School for Good Mothers: A Novel Jessamine Chan
    3.8
  17. The Candy House: A Novel Jennifer Egan
    3.9
  18. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
    4.5
  19. Land of Big Numbers Te-Ping Chen
    3.8
  20. Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel
    4
  21. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Imani Perry
    4.3
  22. Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
    4.1
  23. Trust: the dazzling twisty story of power, greed and love that begins in 1920s New York Hernan Diaz
    4.2
  24. An American Marriage: A Novel Tayari Jones
    3.9
  25. A House for Mr Biswas V.S. Naipaul
    3.4
  26. Asymmetry: A Novel Lisa Halliday
    3.5
  27. Arthur Ashe: A Life Raymond Arsenault
    3.4
  28. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight
    4.1
  29. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth Sarah Smarsh
    4
  30. When We Cease to Understand the World: Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize Benjamín Labatut
    4
  31. James: Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Percival Everett
    4.5
  32. The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois
    3
  33. Headshot Rita Bullwinkel
    4.1
  34. Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli
    4.1
  35. Seveneves Neal Stephenson
    3.9
  36. The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World Melinda French Gates
    4.5
  37. Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
    4.1
  38. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
    3.7
  39. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Jia Tolentino
    4.1
  40. Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For Susan Rice
    3.7
  41. Exhalation Ted Chiang
    4.3
  42. The Nickel Boys: the new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead
    4.2
  43. The Underground Railroad: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Colson Whitehead
    4.1
  44. The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir Samantha Power
    4.4
  45. Nuts To You Lynne Rae Perkins
    3.2
  46. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Jenny Odell
    3.7
  47. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson
    4.4
  48. Aftershocks Nadia Owusu
    4.1
  49. The Glass Hotel: The Haunting Novel from the Author of Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel
    3.7
  50. The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
    3.4