Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman
LGBTQ History
512 books — 140 voters
Book Uncle and Me by Uma Krishnaswami
Children's Books About Voting
183 books — 44 voters

A Different Pond by Bao Phi
2018 Mock Caldecott
104 books — 152 voters
The Best We Could Do by Thi BuiFun Home by Alison BechdelHyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
Comics & Graphic Novels by Women
1,494 books — 1,365 voters

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide LindqvistThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakSmilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
Winter Reads
10,122 books — 2,763 voters
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersFingersmith by Sarah WatersTales of the City by Armistead MaupinThe Hours by Michael CunninghamMaurice by E.M. Forster
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,783 books — 2,176 voters

The Young in One Another's Arms by Jane RuleTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonStone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergThe Essential Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Best Lesbian Fiction
2,035 books — 2,657 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Forced to read in school, but hated
322 books — 561 voters

Larklight by Philip ReeveUn Lun Dun by China MiévilleThe Native Star by M.K. HobsonThe Warlord of the Air by Michael MoorcockThe Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt
Best Steampunk Books
1,254 books — 4,097 voters
The Night Bookmobile by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Library of Babel by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Book of Fred by Abby BardiThe Librarian by Larry Beinhart
Books About Librarians
455 books — 578 voters

Flush by Virginia Woolf
Best Books About Animals
1,847 books — 1,855 voters
Mission Child by Maureen F. McHughLilith's Brood by Octavia E. ButlerRaising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper
Most Under-rated Science Fiction
2,114 books — 2,243 voters

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise MurphyBeauty by Sheri S. TepperThe Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. ByattKing Rat by China MiévilleThe Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,809 books — 9,151 voters
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenHunger by Knut HamsunA Doll's House by Henrik IbsenThe Ice Palace by Tarjei VesaasTroll by Johanna Sinisalo
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,213 books — 1,245 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfPossession by A.S. ByattReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Books about Books
1,385 books — 1,519 voters
Library by Matthew BattlesGratia Countryman by Jane Pejsa
Books about Books and Libraries
837 books — 394 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Best African American Books
1,043 books — 1,140 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Dark Is Rising by Susan CooperThe Magician’s Nephew by C.S. LewisMary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy by Mary  Stewart
What Book Would You Like To Live In?
8,743 books — 8,912 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryMara and Dann by Doris LessingThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodBlindness by José Saramago
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,825 books — 26,075 voters