The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Women
3,015 books — 3,031 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
1,710 books — 1,560 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,517 books — 3,522 voters
Hunger by Roxane GayYou Can't Buy Love Like That by Carol E. AndersonDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSouth and West by Joan DidionThe Radium Girls by Kate  Moore
2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
244 books — 86 voters

An Archive of Feelings by Ann CvetkovichGender, Humiliation, and Global Security by Evelin LindnerThe Albino Album by Chavisa WoodsFlirting with Danger by Lynn M. PhillipsUnclaimed Experience by Cathy Caruth
Best Books on Trauma and Gender
13 books — 3 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyRoots by Alex Haley
Historical Sagas
194 books — 65 voters