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170 books — 127 voters

The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilNightwood by Djuna BarnesTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienThe Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
Modernism - An Alternate Canon
101 books — 37 voters
Death in Spring by Mercè RodoredaHigh Tide by Inga ĀbeleZone by Mathias ÉnardThe Museum of Eterna's Novel by Macedonio FernándezMaidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin
Open Letter Books
126 books — 50 voters

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanEverything I Never Told You by Celeste NgFirst They Killed My Father by Loung UngTo All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
Asian Authors
336 books — 41 voters

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend WarnerThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Door by Magda SzabóThe Slynx by Tatyana TolstayaDown Below by Leonora Carrington
NYRB Classics: Books by Women
143 books — 49 voters
DECEIT v. DECEIT by Vernon BaumrindThe Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana AlexievichIn Other Words by Jhumpa LahiriVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Translated Non-Fiction by Women Authors
231 books — 37 voters

An Ordinary Wonder by Buki PapillonIn the Company of Men by Véronique TadjoNotes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla BajaberWayfarers' Hymns by Zakes Mda
50 Notable African Books of 2021
47 books — 4 voters
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong KingstonInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Asian-American Books
544 books — 328 voters


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