Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/33447134-book-riot-community">Book Riot Community</a> (25 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Book Riot Community (25 Lists)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam

Book Riot's 100 Must Read Debut Novels

99 books — 12 voters

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

1-- Must-Read Books Featuring Animals in the Title

86 books — 11 voters

This Is the Rope by Jacqueline Woodson

Preaching to the Chickens by Jabari Asim

Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport

Everett Anderson's Goodbye by Lucille Clifton

Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine

Book Riot's 100 Best Children's Books for Black History Month

151 books — 18 voters

Corduroy by Don Freeman

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Picture Books for Kids and Adults

189 books — 18 voters

True Grit by Charles Portis

Little Big Man by Thomas Berger

The Lonesome Dove Chronicles by Larry McMurtry

Centennial by James A. Michener

Scrib by David Ives

Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Books About The West

180 books — 15 voters

72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

All the Things We Never Knew by Sheila Hamilton

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Books about Mental Illness

100 books — 46 voters

Alanna by Tamora Pierce

The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia

Among Others by Jo Walton

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaam

Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels By Female Authors

100 books — 85 voters

Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood by Varsha Bajaj

Alternative Alamat by Paolo Chikiamco

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

Artichoke Hearts by Sita Brahmachari

Babaylan by Nick Carbó

Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Books by Asian Authors

101 books — 41 voters

5 to 1 by Holly Bodger

After the Death of Anna Gonzales by Terri Fields

After the Kiss by Terra Elan McVoy

All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg

All We Have Is Now by Lisa Schroeder

Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Young Adult Verse Books

100 books — 11 voters

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

A Crack in the Wall by Claudia Piñeiro

A Legend of the Future by Agustín de Rojas

A Thousand Forests in One Acorn by Valerie Miles

Absolute Solitude by Dulce María Loynaz

Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Latin American Books

104 books — 45 voters

The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon

Palladium by Alice Fulton

The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Books of the American Midwest

101 books — 29 voters

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

West with the Night by Beryl Markham

Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston

Night by Elie Wiesel

Paper Lion by George Plimpton

Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Memoirs

100 books — 57 voters

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Bear v. Shark by Chris Bachelder

Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis

The Vaults by Toby Ball

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Strange and Unusual Novels

101 books — 106 voters

Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag

Alibis by André Aciman

American Romances by Rebecca Brown

Art & Ardor by Cynthia Ozick

The Art of the Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate

Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Essay Collections

107 books — 56 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Prophecy by Ellen Oh

Warrior by Ellen Oh

Free-Range and Morally Complex YA

53 books — 13 voters

Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik

Rock, Paper, Scissors by Naja Marie Aidt

The Lion of Justice by Leena Lehtolainen

Thérèse et Isabelle by Violette Leduc

Decompression by Juli Zeh

Great Books in Translation

152 books — 19 voters

All the Rage by Courtney Summers

Missoula by Jon Krakauer

What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler

Easy by Tammara Webber

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Books About Rape and Rape Culture

422 books — 191 voters

Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

In the Woods by Tana French

Deliciously Chilling Horror

100 books — 67 voters

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Slave No More by David W. Blight

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Racism and Inequality 101

97 books — 70 voters

The Last Taxi Ride by A.X. Ahmad

The Dowry Bride by Shobhan Bantwal

A Newlywed’s Adventures in Married Land by Shweta Ganesh Kumar

The Missing Queen by Samhita Arni

The Forgotten Daughter by Renita D'Silva

South Asian Lit

227 books — 53 voters

The Attack by Yasmina Khadra

The Bridges of Constantine by Ahlem Mosteghanemi

Good Morning Comrades by Ondjaki

The Screaming of the Innocent by Dow Unity

Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono

179 books — 31 voters

Over You by Amy Reed

Not That Kind of Girl by Siobhan Vivian

My Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught

Bumped by Megan McCafferty

Thumped by Megan McCafferty

Feminist Fiction

310 books — 77 voters

Pointe by Brandy Colbert

I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister by Amélie Sarn

Kaleidoscope by Alisa Krasnostein

Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee

When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds

Diverse Young Adult Reads

100 books — 28 voters

His Fair Lady by Kimberly Gardner

Painted Faces by L.H. Cosway

My Lady King by Kayla Bashe

Drawn Together by Z.A. Maxfield

Queerly Beloved by Diane Anderson-Minshall

Great LGBTQIA+ Reads

268 books — 97 voters

Bring on the Blessings by Beverly Jenkins

Belle and the Beau by Beverly Jenkins

Sexy/Dangerous by Beverly Jenkins

Vivid by Beverly Jenkins

Destiny's Surrender by Beverly Jenkins

Book Riot Live Reading List

50 books — 10 voters