Best Food Memoirs
Kitchen Confidential, Tender at the Bone, Heat or Blood Bones and Butter - whose kitchen memoir best serves up a life?
Best Indigenous Fiction
Erdrich, Orange, Wagamese or Silko - whose Indigenous novel best captures First Nations experience?
Best Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction)
Kim Stanley Robinson, Atwood, Richard Powers or Bacigalupi - whose climate fiction best grapples with our warming future?
Best Essay Collections
Sontag, Didion, Baldwin, Wallace - whose mind is sharpest when turned loose on the page?
Best Epistolary Novels
From Dracula's diary entries to The Color Purple's letters to God - which novel told through documents grips you most?
Most Banned Books in History
Ulysses, Lolita, The Satanic Verses - which banned book was the most consequential to free speech?
Best Latin American Magical Realism
Garcia Marquez, Allende, Cortazar or Esquivel - whose magical realism best blurs wonder and reality?
Best Espionage Novels
Le Carre's moles, Fleming's martinis, Ludlum's amnesiacs - which spy novel is the greatest of all time?