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Best In Non-Fiction


Best In Mind & Spirit

Soul Fuel


Best In Art & Creativity

Best In Memoirs & Biographies

Everything That Remains - Joshua Fields Millburn

Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson

Tiger Woods - Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian

Just Kids or M Train - Patti Smith

A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway

The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country - Helen Russell

Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

The Complete MAUS: A Survivor’s Tale - Art Spiegelman

Shoe Dog - Phil Knight


Best In Fiction

Dune - Frank Herbert

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

The Silent Cry - Kenzaburo Oe

Post Office - Charles Bukowski

Kafka on The Shore - Haruki Murakami

Peter Camenzind: A Novel - Hermann Hesse

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carré

Best In Classics

The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Trial - Franz Kafka

The Outsider - Albert Camus

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

The Call Of The Wild - Jack London

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

Catch - 22 - Joseph Heller

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry


Best In Audiobooks

Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman

A Personal Matter - Kenzaburo Oe

The Martian - Andy Weir

Poirot’s Finest: BBC Radio dramatization - Agatha Christie

Storm Front - Jim Butcher

Best In Short Story Collection