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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Terri (7 Lists)



Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,843 books — 1,727 voters
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisSister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Best African American Books
1,056 books — 1,157 voters

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan PoeThe Wife of His Youth and Other Stories by Charles W. ChesnuttThe Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
Collections of Short Stories
2,916 books — 2,068 voters
The Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Best Feminist Fiction
1,524 books — 2,689 voters

The Complete Works by William ShakespeareAnimal Farm by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best British and Irish Literature
1,174 books — 1,116 voters