Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,920 books — 1,817 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
1,101 books — 1,369 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
2,986 books — 2,118 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
1,543 books — 2,815 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
1,187 books — 1,121 voters