To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
117th out of 2,142 books — 1,546 voters
Fun Home by Alison BechdelAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsStone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergThe Mayor of Castro Street by Randy ShiltsOdd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman
Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction
26th out of 836 books — 484 voters

And the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Men with the Pink Triangle by Heinz HegerGay New York by George ChaunceyYou Can't Buy Love Like That by Carol E. AndersonTransgender History by Susan Stryker
LGBTQ History
13th out of 507 books — 140 voters
John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
760th out of 2,153 books — 2,513 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
1427th out of 6,236 books — 8,067 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOrlando by Virginia WoolfI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Ban this Booklist by ACLU
17th out of 50 books — 4 voters

And the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsQueer by Meg-John BarkerA Wild and Precious Life by Edie WindsorThe 57 Bus by Dashka SlaterOdd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman
Task 4 #ReadHarder 2021
6th out of 55 books — 13 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyBoot by Charles L. TempletonThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Counter-Culture of the 1960s (fiction and nonfiction)
114th out of 420 books — 172 voters
Untamed by Glennon DoyleBoy Meets Boy by David LevithanThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerSissy by Jacob TobiaWe Are Everywhere by Matthew Riemer
R182 Book Club - Pride Month
10th out of 35 books — 2 voters

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Wolves in the Walls by Neil GaimanThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Door in the Wall by Marguerite de AngeliRedwall by Brian Jacques
The Wall
240th out of 342 books — 28 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsThe Sword in the Stone by T.H. WhiteStone Soup by Marcia BrownOver Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
Rocks and Stones
419th out of 690 books — 45 voters

The Stonewall Reader by New York Public LibraryThe Stonewall Riots by Marc SteinOne-Dimensional Queer by Roderick FergusonPride by Matthew ToddStonewall by Martin Duberman
Books About Stonewall
3rd out of 19 books — 5 voters
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill CollinsFree Women, Free Men by Camille PagliaNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassUndocumented by Aviva ChomskyFake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies by Donald A. Barclay
Books to Throw at Donald Trump's Fat Head
21st out of 210 books — 9 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisWhen We Rise by Cleve JonesAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Mayor of Castro Street by Randy ShiltsBoots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
Books about queer history (nonfiction)
44th out of 65 books — 29 voters
Risky Business by Amy AndrewsSkinhead... The Life I Chose by Spike PittForever in Blue by Ann BrasharesThe Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann BrasharesAlong for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
Blue Jeans
74th out of 200 books — 39 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of New York City
842nd out of 1,677 books — 1,236 voters
Sleepers by Lorenzo CarcaterraTuesday by David WiesnerTrapped by Michael NorthropSacrifice by Helyn DunnTempted by P.C. Cast
One Word Titles - S through Z
211th out of 399 books — 14 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsStone Soup by Marcia BrownThe Sword in the Stone by T.H. WhiteHeartstone by C.J. Sansom
The Stone...
76th out of 510 books — 35 voters