Homegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadThe Vegetarian by Han KangWhat Lies Between Us by Nayomi MunaweeraI Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2016
45th out of 178 books — 155 voters
The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahMe Before You by Jojo MoyesAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrA Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
2016: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2016
474th out of 6,060 books — 685 voters

Homegoing by Yaa GyasiDark Matter by Blake CrouchA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesThe Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadThe Girls by Emma Cline
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017
235th out of 513 books — 1,999 voters
A God in Ruins by Kate AtkinsonA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaRush Oh! by Shirley BarrettRuby by Cynthia BondThe Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 - Longlist
9th out of 20 books — 19 voters

The House of Hunger by Dambudzo MarecheraPym by Mat JohnsonThe Book of Memory by Petina GappahBlu's Hanging by Lois-Ann YamanakaRice by Su Tong
Books to Read to Expand Your Mind
3rd out of 18 books — 2 voters
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadThe Vegetarian by Han KangHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Mothers by Brit BennettThe Girls by Emma Cline
The 2017 Tournament of Books Longlist
82nd out of 134 books — 92 voters

Alias Grace by Margaret AtwoodRoom by Emma DonoghueThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderAre Prisons Obselete? by Angela Y. DavisHag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Reading Women Challenge 2021 #3 About Incarceration
19th out of 73 books — 23 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Books Ever
38503rd out of 76,963 books — 286,432 voters

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanThe Snow Child by Eowyn IveyThe Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Skloot Rebecca
Gen X Authors
85th out of 163 books — 13 voters
Born a Crime by Trevor NoahMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan BraithwaiteHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHomegoing by Yaa GyasiAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
[ATY 2024] African Author
131st out of 207 books — 84 voters

Treasure of the World by Tara SullivanSkylight by José SaramagoThe Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus KivirähkThrough the Leopard's Gaze by Njambi McGrathSeven Stones by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
My Read The World List
56th out of 75 books — 1 voter
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine EvaristoMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan BraithwaiteNormal People by Sally RooneyStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelHamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Women's Prize Longlist 2020 - 2015
81st out of 104 books — 5 voters

Born a Crime by Trevor NoahThe Dry by Jane HarperWhat Alice Forgot by Liane MoriartyThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionThe Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
ATY 2020 - A book set in the southern hemisphere
120th out of 193 books — 67 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
Contemporary Black Women's Literature
412th out of 570 books — 233 voters

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgThe Woman in the Window by A.J. FinnThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasThe Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
2018: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2018
5774th out of 6,937 books — 978 voters
What Goes Up by Wen BaragreyAkata Witch by Nnedi OkoraforElric of Melniboné by Michael MoorcockThe Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert DugoniBeyond the Pale by Emily Urquhart
Albinism and Albinos
39th out of 63 books — 17 voters

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHomegoing by Yaa GyasiWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieMr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
25 African Women Writers You Should Read
66th out of 76 books — 21 voters
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain NeuvelThe Illegal by Lawrence HillBirdie by Tracey LindbergDodgers by Bill BeverlyHomegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Pop Rocket 2016 Summer Reading List
17th out of 44 books — 8 voters

The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFaddenLazaretto by Diane McKinney-WhetstoneWhat Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
If The Yam Used In Sacrifice Does Not Die Prematurely, It Will Eventually Germinate: Forthcoming Books for 2016 by Authors of African Descent
73rd out of 90 books — 36 voters
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane MoriartySmall Great Things by Jodi PicoultThe Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix SweeneyThe Girls by Emma ClineLaRose by Louise Erdrich
The "Can't Wait" Books of 2016 that are not part of a series
191st out of 203 books — 297 voters


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