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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinAlanna by Tamora Pierce
Best Feminist Science Fiction/Fantasy
702 books — 629 voters
Jerkbait by Mia SiegertA Question of Counsel by Archer Kay LeahA Separate Peace by John KnowlesFingersmith by Sarah WatersAffinity by Sarah Waters
LGBT*AQetc. Books
130 books — 16 voters

Remembrance of Things I Forgot by Bob SmithWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonThe Empty Family by Colm TóibínAre You My Mother? by Alison BechdelMoffie by André Carl van der Merwe
The Green Carnation Prize
84 books — 33 voters
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenSybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
Plan: Books about gender, madness, and religion
80 books — 41 voters

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodBel Canto by Ann PatchettThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Onion A.V. Club: The Best Books of the 2000s
30 books — 10 voters
Being Lucy by Dale Lorna JacobsenThe Game of Kings by Dorothy DunnettThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoAll Things Bright and Strange by James MarkertThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Historical Fiction (Literary)
336 books — 130 voters

Wild by Cheryl StrayedThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsJust Kids by Patti SmithEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThis Childhood of Mine by Laura Meer Barkley
Memoirs: Beautiful, Weird, Experimental, But Not Celebrity (An Education)
346 books — 139 voters
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR by American Psychiatric Associ...The Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. YalomLove's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
Books Every Psychology and/or Counseling Doctoral Student Should Read
1,363 books — 1,490 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottEmma by Jane AustenAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Classic Chick Lit
159 books — 85 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 172 voters

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. MassieThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMeditations in an Emergency by Frank O'HaraGoodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Books Featured on "Mad Men"
53 books — 9 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess1984 by George OrwellUlysses by James JoyceMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)
560 books — 544 voters


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