The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,011 books — 1,453 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 — 2,651 voters
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeCall Me By Your Name by André Aciman
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,775 books — 2,172 voters

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotAriel by Sylvia Plath
Best Poetry Books
2,992 books — 2,445 voters
The Hell Within Me by C.B. RobertsCleaning Out The 'Fridge by Sandra CutchallStupid Poems by Linda De QuinceyA Conceptual Circus by Kenneth Jarrett SingletonThe Dust of Us by Michelle Boske
New Poetry books
459 books — 376 voters

Battle Royale by Koushun TakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese Books That Are Not Manga
256 books — 190 voters
White Knuckle by Steven  BruceCrush by Richard SikenAutobiography of Red by Anne CarsonBluets by Maggie NelsonA Village Life by Louise Glück
Best Collection of Poems by Living Authors
1,010 books — 905 voters