World Book Day: Celebrate With Our List Of Best Reads

Happy World Book Day! Curl up and celebrate with our top picks.

Best Novel: "NW" by Zadie Smith

Smith's first novel in seven year, traces the friendship of two women who grew up in a housing project in London, their lives disrupted by fate and chance. The narrative moves with incandescent language, uncovering truths about identity and money in an intimate but direct way.

Best Non-Fiction: "Behind The Beautiful Forevers" by Katherine Boo

Katherine Boo's epic recollection of life in Mumbai's biggest slum, Annawadi, is done with the rigor of a Washington Post reporter, and the richly evocative language of an Elizabethan poet.

Best Short Story Collection: "This Is How You Lose Her," by Junot Diaz

Pulitzer-winner Dominican novelist Diaz strips naked the logics of love from the perspective of the young Caribbean male. Affection in all of its forms, from maternal to erotic to brotherly, is at the core of each of these nine stories, exposed in the honest and courageous voice the author displayed in his master piece "The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao."

Best Photobook: "(based on a true story)" by David Alan Harvey

Rio de Janeiro in all its splendor and decadence is the protagonist of Harvey's redefining photography book. With a design as impressive as functional, Harvey takes us through the hidden corners of Brazil's sexiest city in a way that is not only seen - but fully experienced.

Best Advice: "The Signal And The Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail -- But Some Don't" by Nate Silver

Statistician and blogger Nate Silver examines the complex, though rudimentary science of prediction, in a language that even the non-verse in math or science would understand. He even confesses his own tactics at poker - not to be missed.