Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanShanghai Girls by Lisa SeeLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusFearless Jones by Walter Mosley
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277 books — 126 voters
Onyx Storm by Rebecca YarrosEverything Is Tuberculosis by John GreenThe Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth WareWild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghyWe All Live Here by Jojo Moyes
Can't Wait Books of 2025
739 books — 854 voters

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira LevinThe House Across the Lake by Riley SagerThe Mephisto Waltz by Fred Mustard Stewart
Possession!
3 books — 2 voters
Cher by CherLife and Wild Times of Cher by Lawrence J. QuirkCher! by Vicki PellegrinoForever Fit by CherSonny and Cher by Thomas Braun
Cher, The One And Only
42 books — 3 voters

Rememberings by Sinéad O'Connor
Irish Interest 2021
52 books — 8 voters
Rot by Padraic X. Scanlan
Irish Interest 2025
137 books — 16 voters

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
The Female Gerund Phenomenon
420 books — 46 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerLolita by Vladimir NabokovGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George SpeareWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Fiction Featuring a Teenage Girl
399 books — 25 voters

Gemini Summer by Iain Lawrence
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1960s
194 books — 32 voters
Making the Best of What's Left by Judith ViorstNormally Weird and Weirdly Normal by Robin Ince
Memoirs Published in Year: 2025
283 books — 61 voters

Water for Elephants by Sara GruenAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryDear Life by Alice MunroOpen Secrets by Alice MunroFamily Furnishings by Alice Munro
Authors Born in Canada
115 books — 10 voters

If I Die Before I Wake by Jean Little
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1910s
176 books — 42 voters
Mary Poppins Comes Back by P.L. TraversA City Tossed and Broken by Judy Blundell
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1900s
101 books — 26 voters

The Heart Mender by Andy Andrews
Books on the WW2 Home Front
3 books — 2 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThree Men in a Boat by Jerome K. JeromeRobinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Friendship Between Men
200 books — 14 voters

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataMy Autistic Mama by Kati Hirschy
POC Autistic Characters
33 books — 3 voters
How to Read Islamic Carpets by Walter B. DennyCaucasian Prayer Rugs by Ralph KaffelOld Navajo rugs by Marian E. RodeeWoven Spirit of the Southwest by Don McQuistonRugs and Carpets from the Caucasus by Lyatif Kerimov
Best Antique Rug and Textile Books
47 books — 4 voters

Bread, Wine, Chocolate by Simran SethiWho Was Milton Hershey? by James Buckley Jr.
Books on Chocolate
63 books — 6 voters
What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie KinsellaSurviving "Terminal" Cancer by Ben A. WilliamsThe Great Power-Line Cover-Up by Paul BrodeurThe Cure for All Cancers by Hulda Regehr Clark
Books about Glioblastoma
4 books — 1 voter

Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteA Christmas Memory by Truman CapoteIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman CapoteThe Grass Harp by Truman Capote
Truman Capote: from book to screen
9 books — 7 voters
Summer Crossing by Truman CapoteIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteThe Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories by Truman CapoteThe Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote
Truman Capote
10 books — 5 voters

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro ArikawaThe Guest Cat by Takashi HiraideSlewfoot by BromThe Good, the Bad and the Furry by Tom  CoxThe Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Seduced by the cover!
44 books — 5 voters
Slewfoot by BromTobacco Road by Erskine CaldwellOldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan GurganusFoods That Fight Pain by Neal D. BarnardThe I Ching or Book of Changes by Anonymous
Books I had to skim to finish
63 books — 9 voters

Slewfoot by BromAll in Her Head by Elizabeth Comen
Books about Sadistic Monsters
45 books — 64 voters
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret CravenDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughGlittering Images by Susan Howatch
Novels and Short Stories about Priests
193 books — 29 voters