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Are You My Mother? by Alison BechdelWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonZami by Audre LordeSongs of the Gorilla Nation by Dawn Prince-HughesSex Talks to Girls by Maureen Seaton
Lesbian Memoirs
278 books — 128 voters
To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteAfter Thunder by Bob SeltzerThrough Black Spruce by Joseph BoydenOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Titlemania IV: I've got a preposition for ya'
597 books — 37 voters

Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick NessCrossing to Safety by Wallace StegnerThe Crossing by Cormac McCarthyKilling Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen
Titlemania V: Participles & Gerunds
175 books — 10 voters
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherPlay It As It Lays by Joan DidionKeep the Aspidistra Flying by George OrwellSomeday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter CameronEven Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
Titlemania III: Whole-Sentence Titles
1,448 books — 150 voters

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick NessThe Ask and the Answer by Patrick NessMonsters of Men by Patrick Ness
YA Dystopia Novels
1,769 books — 11,231 voters
Trackers by Deon Meyer
Kirkus Best Books of 2011
88 books — 171 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerZami by Audre LordeWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonThe Passion by Jeanette WintersonAre You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time
872 books — 1,142 voters
Thirteen Hours by Deon MeyerWife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
African Crime Fiction
70 books — 74 voters

I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
Hotels, Motels, Inns, B'n'Bs and Guesthouses
444 books — 189 voters
Swing Low by Miriam ToewsFun Home by Alison Bechdel
Father Memoirs
112 books — 63 voters

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatThe Farming of Bones by Edwidge DanticatAnnie John by Jamaica KincaidUnburnable by Marie-Elena JohnFree Enterprise by Michelle Cliff
Caribbean/West Indian Diaspora Literature - Women (fiction)
205 books — 152 voters
The Plague of Doves by Louise ErdrichAmerican Woman by Susan ChoiBear and His Daughter by Robert StoneBlack Water by Joyce Carol OatesMao II by Don DeLillo
Pulitzer Prize Finalists
81 books — 103 voters

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam ToewsGeek Love by Katherine Dunn
Best Quirky Dark Novels
131 books — 173 voters
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam ToewsIrma Voth by Miriam ToewsA Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Books by Mennonites
43 books — 18 voters

Silver Sparrow by Tayari JonesPym by Mat JohnsonErasure by Percival EverettInvisible Life by E. Lynn HarrisGiovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Books That Every African American Should Read (Huffington Post List)
181 books — 210 voters
One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
Appalachian Fiction
268 books — 323 voters

The Farming of Bones by Edwidge DanticatThe Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica KincaidAt the Bottom of the River by Jamaica KincaidMy Brother by Jamaica KincaidThe Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
The Caribbean 101
409 books — 121 voters
Are You My Mother? by Alison BechdelDora by Lidia YuknavitchA Shining Affliction by Annie G. RogersThe Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. SaksThe Words to Say It by Marie Cardinal
Psychoanalysis in non-technical books (memoirs, novels, short stories, etc.)
18 books — 12 voters

Are You My Mother? by Alison BechdelShot in the Heart by Mikal GilmoreThe Adderall Diaries by Stephen ElliottWild by Cheryl StrayedThe Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Most Compelling Memoirs
280 books — 152 voters
Blood, Bread, and Poetry by Adrienne RichThe Professor's House by Willa CatherMiddlemarch by George EliotA Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far by Adrienne RichWatership Down by Richard Adams
The View from Fifty-One
75 books — 29 voters

Tired of Being Tired by Michael A. Schmidt
Helpful books for myalgic encephalomyelitis
40 books — 20 voters
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonaldSilver Sparrow by Tayari JonesPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenThe Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
“Sister” Novels
626 books — 214 voters

Wild by Cheryl StrayedThis Lovely Life by Vicki Forman
Must-Read Personal Accounts
273 books — 212 voters
Silver Sparrow by Tayari JonesThe Taste of Salt by Martha SouthgateBlack Water Rising by Attica LockeSalvage the Bones by Jesmyn WardThe Living Blood by Tananarive Due
Contemporary Black Women's Literature
566 books — 233 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Waves by Virginia Woolf
Prose poetry
97 books — 51 voters
Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerSilver Sparrow by Tayari JonesThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieSkim by Mariko TamakiFlight by Sherman Alexie
YA Books With Minorities
273 books — 167 voters

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
Best Adult Vampire Books
1,770 books — 4,900 voters
The Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonThe Living Blood by Tananarive DueA Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. GainesBeloved by Toni MorrisonParadise by Toni Morrison
Black Caucus of the ALA Award Winners - Fiction
125 books — 124 voters