To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeRules of Civility by Amor TowlesMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best 1930s Historical Fiction
124 books — 217 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Women
3,017 books — 3,032 voters

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. HeinleinStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinStarship Troopers by Robert A. HeinleinTime Enough for Love by Robert A. HeinleinHave Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
Your Favorite Heinlein Novel
48 books — 311 voters
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky ChambersThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsA Closed and Common Orbit by Becky ChambersThe Martian by Andy WeirQuarter Share by Nathan Lowell
Optimistic Space Scifi
97 books — 103 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cult Classics
1,567 books — 2,120 voters
The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerThe King Must Die by Mary RenaultCirce by Madeline MillerThe Last of the Wine by Mary RenaultThe Iliad by Homer
Classical Fiction
71 books — 66 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,308 books — 1,562 voters