To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathGiovanni’s Room by James BaldwinBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteThe Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Recommended By James Franco
127 books — 8 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfMiddlemarch by George EliotSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonCat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
25 Women to Read Before You Die
25 books — 15 voters

Talking Back by bell hooksBuck by M.K. AsanteIt's Bigger Than Hip Hop by M.K. Asante Jr.The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoAssata by Assata Shakur
#KweliClub
49 books — 6 voters

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Argonauts by Maggie NelsonUnfinished Business by Anne-Marie SlaughterThe Girls by Emma Cline
Lenny-Recommended Books
137 books — 13 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
626 books — 290 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsHamlet by William ShakespeareSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Books You HAVE To Read In Your 20s
112 books — 16 voters

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonRubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae BrownAnnie on My Mind by Nancy GardenFun Home by Alison Bechdel
Lesbian Canon
124 books — 116 voters
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeDuino Elegies by Rainer Maria RilkeLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Jeff Buckley's Bookshelf
158 books — 41 voters


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