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Crush by Richard SikenLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanThe Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'HaraIf Not, Winter by SapphoHowl by Allen Ginsberg
Gay/Queer Poetry
288 books — 122 voters
White Knuckle by Steven BruceCrush by Richard SikenAutobiography of Red by Anne CarsonBluets by Maggie NelsonA Village Life by Louise Glück
Best Collection of Poems by Living Authors
1,016 books — 907 voters

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotAriel by Sylvia Plath
Best Poetry Books
3,011 books — 2,503 voters
Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen LevineMartin's Big Words by Doreen RappaportMoses by Carole Boston WeatherfordDave the Potter by Laban Carrick HillRosa by Nikki Giovanni
African American Picture Book Biographies
264 books — 74 voters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongReal Life by Brandon TaylorThe Lookback Window by Kyle Dillon HertzLess by Andrew Sean GreerNight Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Contemporary Gay (Male) Literature
74 books — 16 voters
Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanLife by Keith RichardsOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,451 books — 1,365 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Best Nature Books
1,155 books — 799 voters
H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldWaterlog by Roger DeakinThe Old Ways by Robert MacfarlaneThe Wild Places by Robert MacfarlaneFindings by Kathleen Jamie
British and Irish Nature Writing
250 books — 168 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,161 books — 1,560 voters
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezBreath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Caribbean Literature
580 books — 264 voters

The Door by Magda SzabóVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukThe Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota KristófThe Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
Women Writers from Central & Eastern Europe in English Translation
236 books — 175 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Best Historical Fiction
7,693 books — 25,957 voters


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