The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirBad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Women & Gender Studies
1,461 books — 546 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,307 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
2,519 books — 3,524 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootSalt by Mark KurlanskyEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
You Read a Book about What?
4,046 books — 2,107 voters
And the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Men with the Pink Triangle by Heinz HegerYou Can't Buy Love Like That by Carol E. AndersonGay New York by George ChaunceyTransgender History by Susan Stryker
LGBTQ History
505 books — 140 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldBright Young Things by Anna GodbersenZ by Therese Anne FowlerSpeak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle GeorgeThe Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Jazz Age Historical Fiction
144 books — 105 voters
The Diviners by Libba BrayThese Violent Delights by Chloe GongBright Young Things by Anna GodbersenLair of Dreams by Libba BraySpeak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George
YA Fiction set in the 1920s
90 books — 109 voters

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithThe Diviners by Libba BrayThe Paris Wife by Paula McLainThe Chaperone by Laura MoriartyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best 1920s Historical Fiction
197 books — 274 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldMary, Everything by Cassandra YorkeSpeak Easy, Anne by Brandy D. AndersonBitter Spirits by Jenn BennettRomancing the Rumrunner by Michelle McLean
1920s Romance
149 books — 69 voters


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