Asking For It by Louise O'NeillOne by Sarah CrossanThe Call by Peadar Ó GuilínOnly Ever Yours by Louise O'NeillThe Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
Irish YA
141 books — 45 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
1,461 books — 546 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeMacbeth by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Best Plays Ever
853 books — 1,129 voters
The Will to Change by bell hooksRemaking Manhood by Mark  GreeneAngry White Men by Michael S. KimmelThe Macho Paradox by Jackson KatzGetting Off by Robert Jensen
Men and Masculinity
361 books — 104 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
1,307 books — 1,560 voters
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Best Book Titles
11,482 books — 7,872 voters

August by Tracy LettsAngels in America by Tony KushnerDog Sees God by Bert V. RoyalArcadia by Tom StoppardWit by Margaret Edson
Best Contemporary Plays
50 books — 58 voters
Water for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence  AnthonyModoc by Ralph HelferLeaving Time by Jodi PicoultLove, Life, and Elephants by Daphne Sheldrick
Elephant Books
135 books — 149 voters

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinThe Selfishness of Others by Kristin DombekThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtHope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
Post-Election Reading List
63 books — 14 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
625 books — 292 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,304 books — 4,519 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Stranger by Albert Camus
David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books
100 books — 311 voters


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