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Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Wedding of Zein and Other Sudanese Stories by Tayeb SalihGold Dust by Ibrahim al-KoniIran Awakening by Shirin EbadiFairytales for Lost Children by Diriye Osman
Books from countries under the US entry ban
104 books — 20 voters
Baboon by Naja Marie AidtWe, the Drowned by Carsten JensenThe Murder of Halland by Pia JuulThe Brummstein by Peter Adolphsen
Danish Literature - in English
92 books — 39 voters

This Earth, My Brother by Kofi Awoonor
What should be my first book of 2016
17 books — 42 voters
Heatwave and Crazy Birds by Gabriela Avigur-RotemThe Years by Virginia WoolfInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoGazelle by Rikki DucornetThe Blue Fox by Sjón
Your Top 5 Reads in 2015
1,519 books — 876 voters

Changes by Ama Ata AidooThe Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei ArmahTwo Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei ArmahBeyond the Horizon by Amma DarkoComes the Voyager at Last by Kofi Awoonor
Novels from Ghana
77 books — 23 voters
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiDistant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa RifaatIran Awakening by Shirin EbadiLes enfants du nouveau monde by Assia DjebarI Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Best Books by Muslim Women
287 books — 409 voters

Heatwave and Crazy Birds by Gabriela Avigur-RotemThe Jade Cabinet by Rikki DucornetChanges by Ama Ata AidooIce by Anna KavanThe American Woman in the Chinese Hat by Carole Maso
500 Great Books By Women Group - Summer of Women 2015
212 books — 51 voters
Angels of the Universe by Einar Már GuðmundssonSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihToo Loud a Solitude by Bohumil HrabalTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonMaqroll by Álvaro Mutis
Great Short Short Books
578 books — 507 voters

Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine BrooksSaqiyuq by Nancy WachowichFlow by Elissa SteinIran Awakening by Shirin EbadiConquest by Andrea Lee Smith
Herstory
588 books — 92 voters
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSomeone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalists/Nominees
108 books — 21 voters

A Blade of Grass by Lewis DeSotoThe Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar MyersThe In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. VassanjiThe Obamas by Peter FirstbrookToo Close to the Sun by Sara Wheeler
Acacia Tree Cover Meme
91 books — 53 voters
Heatwave and Crazy Birds by Gabriela Avigur-RotemThree Day Road by Joseph BoydenHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Blue Fox by SjónGazelle by Rikki Ducornet
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,380 voters

The Ice-Shirt by William T. VollmannA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Farming of Bones by Edwidge DanticatReplacement by Tor UlvenSaqiyuq by Nancy Wachowich
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,130 books — 3,678 voters
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil HrabalSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihHeatwave and Crazy Birds by Gabriela Avigur-RotemThe Blue Fox by SjónInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Favorite Translated Literature
1,029 books — 496 voters

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Farming of Bones by Edwidge DanticatThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaWoman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
Women Around the World
1,159 books — 431 voters
Mayombe by PepetelaThe Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor and Other Stories by Hama TumaA Shattering of Silence by Farida KarodiaBeyond the Horizon by Amma DarkoThe House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera
African Writers Series
239 books — 63 voters

The Ice-Shirt by William T. VollmannBeloved by Toni MorrisonA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
(Not) Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
100 books — 159 voters
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil HrabalThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovEmbers by Sándor MáraiCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Fortress by Meša Selimović
Greatest Eastern European Classics
440 books — 256 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeNineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 485 voters
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
World War One Literature
224 books — 357 voters

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei ArmahSleepwalking Land by Mia CoutoThe Joys of Motherhood by Buchi EmechetaNervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century
100 books — 65 voters
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté
Substance Abuse & Addiction
717 books — 1,315 voters

Last Stories and Other Stories by William T. VollmannA Place in the Country by W.G. SebaldThe Brunist Day of Wrath by Robert CooverMin kamp 3 by Karl Ove KnausgårdEurope in Sepia by Dubravka Ugrešić
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2014 Book Preview
94 books — 402 voters
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
Best Canadian Literature
2,332 books — 1,145 voters

The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński
Books by Journalists
438 books — 105 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 990 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,813 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
1001 Books I'd Rather Die than Read
965 books — 864 voters


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