Big Books of 2026

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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodVox by Christina DalcherThe Grace Year by Kim LiggettThe Stepford Wives by Ira LevinWhen She Woke by Hillary Jordan
Patriarchal Dystopias
125 books — 108 voters
Holes by Louis SacharEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardMatilda by Roald DahlThe Austere Academy by Lemony SnicketVariant by Robison Wells
Evil Schools - Public, Private, and University
100 books — 86 voters

The Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanBREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirSet the Night on Fire by Mike DavisSexual Politics by Kate Millett
Second Wave Feminism
142 books — 57 voters
Wild Swans by Jung ChangLife and Death in Shanghai by Nien ChengMao by Jung ChangRed Azalea by Anchee MinThe People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim
Banned CHINA Books
29 books — 54 voters

Syrian Brides by Anna HalabiThe Hidden Face of Eve by Nawal El SaadawiHeadscarves and Hymens by Mona EltahawyWoman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiThe Veil and the Male Elite by Fatema Mernissi
Arab feminism
46 books — 45 voters
Pornland by Gail DinesPornography by Andrea DworkinWoman Hating by Andrea DworkinThe Industrial Vagina by Sheila JeffreysThe Six Pillars Of Effective Leadership by Jim Carlough
Sex-critical feminism
139 books — 35 voters

The Corrosion of Character by Richard SennettClass by Paul FussellThe Perils of "Privilege" by Phoebe Maltz BovyCapitalism for Democrats by Martin LowyInterrogating Inequality by Erik Olin Wright
Nonfiction on class
60 books — 23 voters
Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samara...Disability Visibility by Alice WongEarth, Animal, and Disability Liberation by Anthony J. Nocella IIMoojag and the Auticode Secret by N.E. McMorranNeurodiversity in the Workplace by Alice Hewson
Disability Justice Writing
34 books — 16 voters

Woman and Nature by Susan GriffinWomen Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola EstésThe Death of Nature by Carolyn MerchantThe Green Reaper by Elizabeth FournierGyn/Ecology by Mary Daly
Ecofeminist nonfiction
35 books — 15 voters
De Rerum Natura by David HillstromMotherwit by Urmila PawarThe Exercise of Freedom by Susie TharuThe Grip of Change by P. SivakamiUnclaimed Terrain by Ajay Navaria
Dalit Literature
99 books — 14 voters

Untenrum frei by Margarete StokowskiDer kleine Unterschied und seine großen Folgen by Alice SchwarzerSprache und Sein by Kübra GümüşayDie Wand by Marlen HaushoferUnlearn Patriarchy by Lisa Jaspers
Feminismus auf Deutsch
79 books — 13 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodDaddy's Hobby by Owen JonesThe 19th Wife by David EbershoffThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanDisposable People by Kevin Bales
Female Oppression
14 books — 10 voters

Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarThe Weave of My Life by Urmila PawarThe Prisons We Broke by Baby KambleThe Essential Writings of B. R. Ambedkar by B.R. AmbedkarMAHAD by Anand Teltumbde
Dalit History
105 books — 9 voters
The Straight Mind by Monique WittigThis Sex Which is Not One by Luce IrigarayClose to Home by Christine DelphyUn féminisme décolonial by Françoise VergèsL'écrivaine morte by Núria Añó
French feminism
32 books — 5 voters

Ambedkar by Gail OmvedtJoothan by Omprakash ValmikiThe Weave of My Life by Urmila PawarThe Elephant Chaser's Daughter by Shilpa RajComing Out as Dalit by Yashica Dutt
Dalit Biographies
63 books — 5 voters
Never Caught by Erica Armstrong DunbarIsland Queen by Vanessa RileyKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Escapes of David George by Gregory E. O'MalleySouth to Freedom by Alice L. Baumgartner
June Book Display - Juneteenth / Freedom Day
84 books — 4 voters

Ambedkar by Salim YusufjiAmbedkar by Gail OmvedtIconoclast by Anand TeltumbdeAmbedkar's Preamble by Aakash Singh RathoreThe Social Context of an Ideology by M S Gore
Ambedkar — Books About Babasaheb
26 books — 3 voters
Do Not Go Quietly by Jason SizemoreTwitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep TufekciA Phoenix First Must Burn by Patrice CaldwellTake the Mic by Bethany C. MorrowGood Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva
Stories of Resistance and Hope
5 books — 2 voters

Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. MoreCaste Matters by Suraj YengdeThe Social Context of an Ideology by M S GoreMahad by Bojja TharakamAmbedkar by Narendra Jadhav
Ambedkarite
23 books — 1 voter
Politics as Social Text in India by Jayabrata SarkarThe Dalit Truth by K. RajuThe Trauma of Caste by Thenmozhi SoundararajanBhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India by V. GeethaUnseen by Bhasha Singh
Dalit Sociology
100 books — 1 voter

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanHope in the Dark by Rebecca SolnitHow to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiCaste by Isabel WilkersonThe New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
iovation social skills bookclub reading list
52 books — 1 voter
Facing the Lion by Simone Arnold LiebsterBehind the Bedroom Wall by Laura E. WilliamsA Faraway Island by Annika ThorRed Scarf Girl by Ji-li JiangBetween Shades of Gray by Andrew Donkin
The Children Shall Lead
69 books — 1 voter

Past Tense by Sacha MardouThe House of My Mother by Shari FrankeTogether by Vivek H. MurthyIt's Not You by Ramani DurvasulaHow to Leave the Mormon Church by Alyssa Grenfell
Novonexus' Book List For Religious Deconstruction
79 books — 1 voter
My Work is Not Yet Done by Thomas LigottiHorrorstör by Grady HendrixHasty for the Dark by Adam L.G. NevillThere Is No Antimemetics Division by qntmThe Corporation by J.F. Gonzalez
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Horror in Fiction
66 books — 1 voter

Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep TufekciQueer Newark by Whitney StrubNo Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L. MooreNever Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane Anders
Book Riot 2026 #ReadHarder Challenge Task #5
4 books — 1 voter
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyLakewood by Megan GiddingsSnow Crash by Neal StephensonThe Employees by Olga RavnRipe by Sarah Rose Etter
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part I
100 books — 1 voter

Metal from Heaven by August ClarkeTrust by Hernan DiazLand of Milk and Honey by C Pam ZhangBabel by R.F. KuangThe Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part II
100 books — 1 voter
The Egg Man by Carlton Mellick IIIExtreme Makeover by Dan WellsThe Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 3 by Philip K. DickThe Terraformers by Annalee NewitzThe Portable Door by Tom Holt
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part III
14 books — 1 voter

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