Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/210397-jo">jo</a> (353 Lists)

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,704 books — 6,859 voters

Dora by Lidia Yuknavitch

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith

Best LGBTQIA literature

1,738 books — 2,135 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Street by Ann Petry

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Paradise by Toni Morrison

Best African American Books

1,001 books — 1,136 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The Loony-Bin Trip by Kate Millett

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read

773 books — 1,402 voters

Janet Frame by Janet Frame

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

The Loony-Bin Trip by Kate Millett

A Shining Affliction by Annie G. Rogers

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Memoirs by Women

2,955 books — 2,996 voters

The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley

If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes

Los Angeles (fiction and nonfiction)

322 books — 288 voters

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Risk Pool by Richard Russo

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron

Animal's People by Indra Sinha

Coming of Age Stories

730 books — 554 voters

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Loony-Bin Trip by Kate Millett

Faces in the Water by Janet Frame

A Shining Affliction by Annie G. Rogers

Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)

1,139 books — 2,252 voters

Runaway by Alice Munro

The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua

Carried Away by Alice Munro

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,203 books — 28,368 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

Books With Unforgettable Characters

9,440 books — 8,359 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels

99 books — 952 voters

Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee

Songs of the Gorilla Nation by Dawn Prince-Hughes

Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography

5,772 books — 6,302 voters

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Plague by Albert Camus

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Best Philosophical Literature

1,147 books — 2,744 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,794 books — 49,751 voters

The Writing on the Wall by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Zero by Jess Walter

Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

247 books — 220 voters

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Marbles by Ellen Forney

Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

Best Memoir Graphic Novels

382 books — 426 voters

Impressions of an Indian Childhood by Zitkála-Šá

Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko

Flight by Sherman Alexie

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich

Native American Fiction

837 books — 638 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Paradise by Toni Morrison

Best Feminist Books

2,489 books — 3,482 voters

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Paradise by Toni Morrison

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Best Feminist Fiction

1,499 books — 2,665 voters

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor

Selected Stories by Alice Munro

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Collections of Short Stories

2,883 books — 2,037 voters

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,850 books — 21,795 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Middlemarch/Silas Marner/Amos Barton by George Eliot

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights, Agnès Grey & Villette by Emily Brontë

Must Read Classics

1,853 books — 4,617 voters

Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko

My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid

Flight by Sherman Alexie

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

mourning & ghosts, life & death

384 books — 111 voters

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