The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryBlack Beauty by Anna SewellLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
Vintage Children's Classics
97 books — 47 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
2,804 books — 3,852 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
3,236 books — 3,437 voters
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Paris Wife by Paula McLainWolf Hall by Hilary MantelLoving Frank by Nancy HoranThe Hours by Michael Cunningham
Fictionalized accounts of real people
351 books — 111 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
1,394 books — 1,666 voters