In Search of Respect by Philippe BourgoisThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanLiquidated by Karen HoArgonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronisław MalinowskiNisa by Marjorie Shostak
Good Ethnography
140 books — 101 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldWinnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
764 books — 1,131 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Best African American Books
1,043 books — 1,138 voters

The People Could Fly by Virginia HamiltonHer Stories by Virginia HamiltonJohn Henry by Julius LesterThe People Could Fly by Virginia HamiltonThe Black Cloth by Bernard Binlin Dadié
African and African American Folktales
137 books — 19 voters
32 Candles by Ernessa T. CarterThe Coldest Winter Ever by Sister SouljahTryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made by Virginia DeBerryFlyy Girl by Omar TyreeThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Best Black/African American Chicklit
432 books — 403 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodSula by Toni Morrison
Sisterhood
168 books — 165 voters
Get Bail, Leave Jail by S.J. PlotkinThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellSuicide by Émile DurkheimThe Marx-Engels Reader by Karl MarxThe Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
Sociology
67 books — 17 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola RotimiAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka
Books Set in Nigeria
198 books — 109 voters
Little Princes by Conor GrennanBetween Inca Walls, A Peace Corps Memoir by Evelyn Kohl LaTorreRiver Town by Peter HesslerMonique and the Mango Rains by Kris HollowayThe Color of the Elephant by Christine  Herbert
Volunteers - Memoirs
74 books — 24 voters


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