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Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini Selladurai

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini Selladurai

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Immigrant Experience Literature

87th out of 1,070 books — 1,790 voters

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Caribbean/West Indian Diaspora Literature - Women (fiction)

20th out of 212 books — 157 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Best Feminist Fiction

225th out of 1,526 books — 2,692 voters

The Girl with the Hazel Eyes by Callie Browning

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Small Island by Andrea Levy

13th out of 405 books — 92 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Alanna by Tamora Pierce

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Best Feminist Young Adult Books

262nd out of 1,326 books — 1,346 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

477th out of 3,168 books — 3,684 voters

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest by Wayne Gerard Trotman

Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul

The Caribbean 101

28th out of 413 books — 121 voters

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Counterpunch: 100 Best Novels in English, Since 1900

51st out of 100 books — 23 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Purge by Sofi Oksanen

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

A year of reading the world

32nd out of 277 books — 51 voters

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips

Contemporary Black Women's Literature

94th out of 574 books — 242 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Bossypants by Tina Fey

65 books to read in your twenties

23rd out of 65 books — 30 voters

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Body Count by Linda Wong

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

14th out of 101 books — 33 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by WOMEN

49th out of 99 books — 16 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

#BlackLivesMatter Reading List

195th out of 628 books — 292 voters

Emma by Jane Austen

Dune by Frank Herbert

Kate by Tate James

Fake by Tate James

Liar by Tate James

It is a four letter word......

47th out of 349 books — 42 voters

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

100 Black Novelists You Should Read

67th out of 100 books — 23 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Great Short Novels

34th out of 113 books — 44 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

1984 by George Orwell

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Queen's Library: Best of the Commonwealth

294th out of 747 books — 238 voters

Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

Feminism, Interrupted by Lola Olufemi

Middlemarch by George Eliot

PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE by Porpentine Charity Heartscape

Remainder by Tom McCarthy

59th out of 99 books — 3 voters

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

James by Percival Everett

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

2025: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2025

5445th out of 5,752 books — 338 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

Popsugar 2021 #4 - A Book by an Author who Shares Your Zodiac Sign: Gemini

69th out of 163 books — 41 voters

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

My Ántonia by Willa Cather

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

Task 5 #ReadHarder 2025

21st out of 33 books — 2 voters

Lila by Marilynne Robinson

The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

AP Lit books! (3)

13th out of 100 books — 1 voter

Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

52 Book Club 2022: December Mini Challenge - 3 C's On The Cover

112th out of 137 books — 11 voters

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Circe by Madeline Miller

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Popsugar 2020 - A Bildungsroman

113th out of 172 books — 249 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez

El salón de los artistas exiliados en California by Núria Añó

Solito, Solita by Steven Mayers

No more mimosa by Ethel Mannin

Exile and Assimilation

10th out of 88 books — 5 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Best Books of the 20th Century

7233rd out of 7,877 books — 49,835 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Emma by Jane Austen

Katherine by Anya Seton

Demelza by Winston Graham

Carrie by Stephen King

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

255th out of 343 books — 49 voters

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Emma by Jane Austen

One Name as a Title

577th out of 1,130 books — 201 voters

All Over Again by A-dZiko Simba Gegele

Dancing in the Rain by Lynn Joseph

Children of the Spider by Imam Baksh

Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older

Silver People by Margarita Engle

Caribbean #OwnVoices Young Adult Fiction

49th out of 87 books — 12 voters

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