I Was Told to Come Alone by Souad MekhennetAn Odyssey by Daniel MendelsohnThe Islamic Enlightenment by Christopher de BellaigueHow to Survive a Plague by David FranceBorder by Kapka Kassabova
The Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 Longlist
1st out of 12 books — 9 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Women Around the World
371st out of 1,163 books — 433 voters

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 by Emil FerrisKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannGlass House by Brian AlexanderGirls & Sex by Peggy OrensteinAl Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
Fresh Air 2017
61st out of 147 books — 40 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-SmithIsaac's Storm by Erik LarsonA Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Dark Times: Terrible Past and Present in our World (Non-Fiction)
42nd out of 83 books — 21 voters

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf RumOur Women on the Ground by Zahra Fatima HankirThe Beekeeper by Dunya MikhailThe Other Americans by Laila LalamiThe Woman from Tantoura by Radwa Ashour
Reading Women Challenge 2020 #13 A Book by an Arab Woman
34th out of 55 books — 24 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Martian by Andy WeirThe Help by Kathryn Stockett
Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4.3 and Above
2023rd out of 3,131 books — 478 voters

Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardBehave by Robert M. SapolskyThe Future Is History by Masha GessenI Can't Breathe by Matt Taibbi
The Washington Post Best Books of 2017
6th out of 10 books — 3 voters
Behind the Horror by Lee MellorImpact by Cassandra SpencerWhat They Did for Love by Denny Martin FlinnCover Me by Ray PadgettBehind Beavis and Butt-Head/Are They 'Really Cool' or Ar They... by Isaac E. Mozeson
Get Thee "Behind" Me
290th out of 323 books — 10 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanQuiet by Susan Cain
Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
711th out of 1,213 books — 964 voters
War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana AlexievichThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankD-Day Girls by Sarah RoseCode Girls by Liza MundyThe Hello Girls by Elizabeth Cobbs
Women in War
118th out of 126 books — 7 voters

The Immigrant by Nery McMahonI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Non Fiction/Memoirs by Women of Color
171st out of 345 books — 70 voters
Ready Player One by Ernest ClineA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinV. by Thomas Pynchon
2018 is dead. Long live 2018.
44th out of 53 books — 3 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Women
2866th out of 3,073 books — 3,099 voters
Hunger by Roxane GayYou Can't Buy Love Like That by Carol E. AndersonDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSouth and West by Joan DidionThe Radium Girls by Kate Moore
2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
119th out of 245 books — 84 voters

And So It Goes by Linda EllerbeeNaked in Baghdad by Anne GarrelsIt's What I Do by Lynsey AddarioTake Big Bites by Linda EllerbeeDon't Be Afraid of the Bullets by Laura Kasinof
Memoirs of women journalists
13th out of 75 books — 14 voters
On the Front Line by Marie ColvinNaked in Baghdad by Anne GarrelsForeign Correspondence by Geraldine BrooksWhy I Write by George OrwellDispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper
Foreign Correspondents, Journalists & Reporters
46th out of 144 books — 29 voters

All the President’s Men by Carl BernsteinThe Best and the Brightest by David HalberstamThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Books by Journalists
119th out of 438 books — 105 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiLove in a Headscarf by Shelina Zahra JanmohamedThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiIran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
Memoirs by Muslim women
30th out of 32 books — 29 voters

Lone Survivor by Marcus LuttrellAmerican Sniper by Chris KyleNo Easy Day by Mark OwenInside the Jihad by Omar NasiriSand by Paul Majkut
Post 9/11 War Memoirs
5th out of 26 books — 12 voters


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