I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Big Sea by Langston HughesDust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale HurstonI Wonder as I Wander by Langston HughesThe Life of Langston Hughes by Arnold Rampersad
Author Biographies and Memoirs
426 books — 125 voters
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,141 books — 3,675 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
#BlackLivesMatter Reading List
624 books — 291 voters

The Intellectual Devotional by David S. KidderThe Daily Stoic by Ryan HolidaySimple Abundance by Sarah Ban BreathnachThe Intellectual Devotional Modern Culture by David S. KidderThe Intellectual Devotional Biographies by David S. Kidder
Secular Daily Readings
64 books — 23 voters
Sister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-PerryThe John Carlos Story by John CarlosThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderWho's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to Be Black Now by TouréFor Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow... by Keith Boykin
Melissa-Harris Perry Show Reads
166 books — 25 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
2,495 books — 3,498 voters



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