Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/2895245-emily-mac-rae">Emily Mac Rae</a> (25 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Emily Mac Rae (25 Lists)

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell

My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Freedom Riders by Raymond Arsenault

40k English titles

40 books — 21 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Othello by William Shakespeare

Native Son by Richard Wright

Best Male Character

3,165 books — 2,983 voters

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane

Africa (fiction and nonfiction)

1,764 books — 1,645 voters

Snakes and Ladders by Gita Mehta

1,024 books — 865 voters

Summerhill by A.S. Neill

Books for Teachers/Educators

784 books — 643 voters

West with the Night by Beryl Markham

Top Feminist Books

173 books — 113 voters

The Women's Room by Marilyn French

The Group by Mary McCarthy

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read

772 books — 1,399 voters

The Group by Mary McCarthy

162 books — 133 voters

Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen E. Ambrose

Trains, Planes, and Automobiles

370 books — 84 voters

Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel

Best Historical Travel Journals

335 books — 239 voters

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

Best Inspirational Books

662 books — 843 voters

A Gentle Madness by Nicholas A. Basbanes

At Home with Books by Estelle Ellis

Books on Books: Bookmaking, Biblioclasm, Bibliophilia

424 books — 360 voters

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

On Writing by Stephen King

Best Books on Creative Life

509 books — 622 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

Novels That Are Great Enough (and fun enough) to Read *Twice*

404 books — 212 voters

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Learn About History

459 books — 186 voters

Small Island by Andrea Levy

Orange Prize for Fiction Winners

30 books — 130 voters

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler

Best African American Authors

189 books — 125 voters

Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Native Son by Richard Wright

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

African American Books That Changed Our Lives

125 books — 170 voters

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Books With Unforgettable Characters

9,446 books — 8,499 voters

Inside the Kingdom by Carmen Bin Ladin

Memoirs by Women

3,048 books — 3,062 voters

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam

Obama's Challenge by Robert Kuttner

Best Books to Become an Informed Voter

940 books — 1,096 voters

Sounder by William H. Armstrong

The Most Deserving Newbery

107 books — 2,991 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Read Them Twice...At Least

13,956 books — 11,485 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

The Book Was Better Than the Movie

1,561 books — 18,686 voters

Best Books Ever

76,693 books — 285,203 voters