The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI've Got Some Lovin' to Do by Julia Park TraceyDetour from Normal by Ken DicksonThis Childhood of Mine by Laura Meer BarkleyRunning with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Biographies of Ordinary People
20th out of 144 books — 120 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Books with 'Girl' in the Title
290th out of 2,375 books — 275 voters

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline CareyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodKushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline CareyKushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline CareyFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Best Books Involving Sexwork (Fiction and Nonfiction)
77th out of 402 books — 196 voters
Detour from Normal by Ken DicksonLong Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'NeillWhen the Sacred Ginmill Closes by Lawrence BlockHabits that Heal by Nita LapinskiThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Not All Prisons Have Bars
13th out of 53 books — 32 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónPOENA DAMNI by Dimitris LyacosBlindness by José SaramagoThe Last Wish by Andrzej SapkowskiThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Translated Books Project
88th out of 585 books — 75 voters
Junky by William S. BurroughsCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlDandelion Wine by Ray BradburyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Under the Influence
261st out of 366 books — 122 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldGhost Tamer by Meredith R. LyonsA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
City Life
290th out of 318 books — 185 voters
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. AndrewsThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankGo Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
Born in the 1960s - What We Read as Teens
321st out of 574 books — 70 voters