Little Women by Louisa May AlcottJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettI Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Female Bildungsromane
138 books — 41 voters
Fingersmith by Sarah WatersTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersAnnie on My Mind by Nancy GardenFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Price of Salt by Claire  Morgan
Best Lesbian Fiction
2,027 books — 2,638 voters

No Urgency To Be Home by Neha R. KrishnaTaboo by P BaylissHaiku is the Spice of Life by Ginny Tata-PhillipsThe Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo BashōJapanese Death Poems by Yoel Hoffmann
Haiku
116 books — 101 voters

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le GuinAlmond by Sohn Won-PyungKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiDemian by Hermann HesseJung's Map of the Soul by Murray B. Stein
BTS Reads
123 books — 135 voters
Salt by Nayyirah WaheedMilk and honey by Rupi KaurTeaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan ShireI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angeloubone by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Poetry by Women of Color
352 books — 140 voters

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareAriel by Sylvia PlathThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Best Poetry Books
2,970 books — 2,413 voters
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherGalileo by Bertolt BrechtCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonSonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Tamika Flynn's reading list
9 books — 3 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyEmma by Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Vintage Classics Design
27 books — 35 voters