Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Samuel R. Delany's literary pillars
103 books — 25 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPersuasion by Jane AustenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellEmma by Jane Austen
Best Classic Love Stories
392 books — 62 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
1,384 books — 1,644 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
3,215 books — 3,265 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
2,800 books — 3,749 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownBlack Elk Speaks by John G. NeihardtEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneLakota Woman by Mary Crow DogWhere White Men Fear to Tread by Russell Means
Native American Biography (nonfiction)
433 books — 125 voters

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie DimalineThe Break by Katherena VermetteTrail of Lightning by Rebecca RoanhorseBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananThe Sisterhood by Tali Inlow
Books by Indigenous Women
276 books — 49 voters
My Whirlwind Lives by Dee Charles KnightLifelines The Bowen Love Letters by Susan Lee WardTestament of Youth by Vera BrittainHet Achterhuis by Anne FrankVirginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
Herstory
592 books — 113 voters

The Collected Poems by Langston HughesThe Complete Collected Poems by Maya AngelouThe Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo NerudaSelected Poems by Gwendolyn BrooksThe Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde
Favorite Poets of Color
600 books — 199 voters
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuIf Not, Winter by SapphoThe Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de PizanOroonoko by Aphra BehnThe Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
Early Female Fiction Writers
90 books — 31 voters