Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/29336696-arlene">Arlene♡</a> (14 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Arlene♡ (14 Lists)

The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long

Miles Morales by Jason Reynolds

Josephine Baker by Catel

African American Graphic Novels

144 books — 32 voters

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

The Living Blood by Tananarive Due

Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older

Black Speculative Fiction

353 books — 157 voters

Lullaby by Langston Hughes

I Love My Hair! by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley

I Got the Rhythm by Connie Schofield-Morrison

I Like Myself! by Karen Beaumont

I Can Do It Too! by Karen Baicker

Black and African American Contemporary Picture Books

266 books — 57 voters

Sexy/Dangerous by Beverly Jenkins

Gettin' Merry by Beverly Jenkins

Book Riot Live Reading List

50 books — 10 voters

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1 by Amy Reeder

Monstress, Volume 1 by Marjorie M. Liu

Through the Woods by E.M. Carroll

Comics & Graphic Novels by Women

1,496 books — 1,369 voters

A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Most Beautiful Book Covers Ever

2,392 books — 885 voters

Lady Killer, Volume 1 by Joëlle Jones

Lumberjanes, Vol. 1 by N.D. Stevenson

Nimona by N.D. Stevenson

Sex Criminals, Vol. 2 by Matt Fraction

Bitch Planet, Vol. 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Best Graphic Novels 2015

149 books — 366 voters

Bitten by Kelley Armstrong

960 books — 1,219 voters

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost by Joan Morgan

Black Feminist/Womanist Studies (nonfiction)

133 books — 112 voters

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Best Books Ever

78,990 books — 294,133 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Client by John Grisham

The Book Was Better Than the Movie

1,654 books — 18,684 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Roots by Alex Haley

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

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Sister, Sister by Eric Jerome Dickey

Best African American Authors

189 books — 125 voters

When Death Comes Stealing by Valerie Wilson Wesley

Six Easy Pieces by Walter Mosley

Dead Time by Eleanor Taylor Bland

One Must Wait by Penny Mickelbury

Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely

Top books featuring Black female Cops, Private Eyes or Sleuths

62 books — 17 voters

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Black Boy by Richard Wright

Roots by Alex Haley

Best African American Books

1,063 books — 1,161 voters