Unsouled by Will WightBeware of Chicken by CasualFarmerThe First Step by Tao WongUnderlord by Will WightThe Two Week Curse by Michael  Chatfield
Western Cultivation Novels
74 books — 71 voters
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondGhost Wars by Steve CollWhy Nations Fail by Daron AcemoğluOn China by Henry KissingerThe Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
FSO Reading List
119 books — 59 voters

Impossible Saints by Clarissa HarwoodA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftA Time For Courage by Kathryn LaskyFalling Angels by Tracy ChevalierThe Woman's Hour by Elaine F. Weiss
Women's Suffrage
426 books — 134 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouBeloved by Toni MorrisonInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Black History Month
555 books — 495 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
1,376 books — 1,635 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Vicarious Thrills
402 books — 429 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
7,820 books — 26,077 voters
The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaOm Chanting and Meditation by Amit RayAutobiography of a Shiva Devotee by Shikha NarulaChandogya Upanishad by AnonymousOur Heritage Revisited  by Anju Saha
A Hindu Reading List
82 books — 52 voters

Breaking India by Rajiv MalhotraIndia by Diana L. EckThe Lost River by Michel DaninoThe Battle for Sanskrit by Rajiv MalhotraIndra's Net by Rajiv Malhotra
Indian Indology Books
35 books — 14 voters
Politics after Television by Arvind RajagopalAnts Among Elephants by Sujatha GidlaThe Emergency by Coomi KapoorThe Essential Ambedkar by Bhalchandra MungekarThe Hindus by Wendy Doniger
India Nonfiction
157 books — 9 voters

The Immortals of Meluha by Amish TripathiThe Secret of the Nagas by Amish TripathiThe Oath of the Vayuputras by Amish TripathiMahabharata by Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaThe Great War of Hind by Vaibhav Anand
Indian Mythology
247 books — 490 voters