The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThe Passage by Justin CroninAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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1,878 books — 7,005 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Pearl by John SteinbeckAnne of the Island by L.M. MontgomeryThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Down by the Sea
752 books — 568 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHow the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia AlvarezThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Feminist Young Adult Books
1,334 books — 1,353 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingNight by Elie WieselThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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33,261 books — 126,228 voters

The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
2009 MUST READS: Children's and YA
230 books — 779 voters

This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. MoragaFeminism Is for Everybody by bell hooksThe Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Best Feminist Books
3,080 books — 4,523 voters