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We the Animals by Justin Torres
First Person Plural
27 books — 8 voters
The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerGo Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
Books I Regret Reading
2,306 books — 3,225 voters

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine ChanWoman of Light by Kali Fajardo-AnstineWhat the Fireflies Knew by Kai HarrisBrown Girls by Daphne Palasi AndreadesOlga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2022
227 books — 131 voters
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
40 books — 18 voters

Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2021
156 books — 62 voters
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana EnriquezThe Memory Police by Yōko OgawaConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
[ATY 2021] - Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
96 books — 103 voters

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2020
200 books — 182 voters
Severance by Ling MaHeavy by Kiese LaymonThere There by Tommy OrangeGirls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2018
262 books — 286 voters

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
Forthcoming Books for 2019 by African-Americans
69 books — 68 voters
Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon
The 2019 Tournament of Books Longlist
76 books — 431 voters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongAmerican Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2019
316 books — 248 voters
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka ArimahThe Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia BerlinUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriDrinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer
Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Contemporary Short Story Collections
121 books — 73 voters

Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
46 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2018
50 books — 43 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Road by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,980 books — 26,591 voters

The Leavers by Lisa KoAnd West Is West by Ron ChildressRunning the Rift by Naomi BenaronThe Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. DurrowMudbound by Hillary Jordan
PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction
11 books — 5 voters
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadThe Girls by Emma ClineHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017
520 books — 2,004 voters