The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesOrlando by Virginia WoolfTwelfth Night by William ShakespeareAlanna by Tamora Pierce
Best Gender-Bending Books
613 books — 461 voters
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Penguin Modern Classics
416 books — 491 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
2,822 books — 3,985 voters
A Room of One's Own by Virginia WoolfThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxWhy I Write by George OrwellBooks v. Cigarettes by George OrwellThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Penguin Great Ideas
121 books — 93 voters

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
632 books — 903 voters
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. AdlerReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiEx Libris by Anne FadimanHowards End Is on the Landing by Susan         HillHow to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
How To Read
140 books — 8 voters

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian FadermanBoots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky KennedySurpassing the Love of Men by Lillian FadermanThe Disappearing L by Bonnie J. MorrisCHARITY AND SYLVIA by Rachel Hope Cleves
Lesbian Herstory
154 books — 51 voters
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirWomen's Work by Elizabeth Wayland BarberCleopatra by Stacy SchiffSex with Kings by Eleanor HermanShe-Wolves by Helen Castor
Women's History Written by Women
980 books — 195 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassieMarie Antoinette by Antonia FraserThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Female Biographies
1,269 books — 430 voters
Inseparable by Emma DonoghueImmodest Acts by Judith C. BrownCrossing Borders by Sahar AmerMedieval Single Women by Cordelia BeattieSinglewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 by Judith M. Bennett
Lesbian Historic Motif Project
99 books — 3 voters