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Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
735 books — 1,114 voters
The Last Speakers by K. David HarrisonDon't Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel L. EverettThe Translation of Dr Apelles by David TreuerPoems from the Edge of Extinction by Chris McCabeWhen Languages Die by K. David Harrison
Books About Endangered Languages
15 books — 7 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books that Changed the Way You View Life
10,599 books — 6,015 voters
Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinThe Study of Language by George YuleMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Best Books about Linguistics
256 books — 224 voters

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted ChiangEmbassytown by China Miéville1984 by George OrwellThe Sparrow by Mary Doria RussellBabel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction using Languages or Linguistics as a Plot Device
70 books — 119 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,541 books — 123,901 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Complete Poems by Percy Bysshe ShelleyA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftThe Age of Wonder by Richard HolmesMary's Monster by Lita Judge
The Truth Behind the Monster
43 books — 39 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëRebecca by Daphne du MaurierFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Books Written by Women Before 1960
529 books — 104 voters

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
1,481 books — 561 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Feminist Orchestra Potential Reading List
506 books — 572 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,190 books — 1,612 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
782 books — 1,400 voters


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