Stoner by John  WilliamsChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 889 voters
Sex Equality by Catharine A. MacKinnonToward a Feminist Theory of the State by Catharine A. MacKinnonDefending Battered Women on Trial by Elizabeth A. SheehyFeminism Unmodified by Catharine A. MacKinnonWomen's Lives, Men's Laws by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Feminism and the law
52 books — 7 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëDr. Faustus by Christopher MarloweGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Books I Read At University/College
1,010 books — 142 voters
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Collection of Essays by George OrwellThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusArguably by Christopher Hitchens
Best/Favorite Books of Essays
554 books — 248 voters

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy DebordThe Seminar of Jacques Lacan by Jacques LacanMythologies by Roland BarthesThe Sublime Object of Ideology (Phronesis by Slavoj ŽižekThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
r/CriticalTheory Recommended Reading
84 books — 21 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonAtonement by Ian McEwanLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Major Award-Winning Fiction Since 1990
252 books — 567 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
772 books — 1,399 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
2,997 books — 2,478 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
2,664 books — 3,622 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
About Women In Times of Old
39 books — 5 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsHamlet by William ShakespeareSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Books You HAVE To Read In Your 20s
112 books — 16 voters
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanBeyond Good and Evil by Friedrich NietzscheThe Visible and the Invisible by Maurice Merleau-PontyPhenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Most cited books
96 books — 10 voters


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