Secondhand Time by Svetlana AlexievichThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
History Written by Women (Non-Fiction)
131 books — 19 voters
Bitch by Lucy Cooke
Biology
162 books — 26 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Female Naturalist Writers
287 books — 65 voters
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Race, Conservation, and the Outdoors
124 books — 14 voters

We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
Best by African Authors
410 books — 224 voters
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Trailblazing Women Adventurers
550 books — 202 voters

My Own Country by Abraham   VergheseBloodroot by Amy GreeneOther by Catherine Pritchard ChildressFlight Behavior by Barbara KingsolverA Death in the Family by James Agee
Books Set in Tennessee
504 books — 129 voters
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,068 books — 1,787 voters

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
384 books — 301 voters
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesWhat You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
Books for Post-Election Understanding
199 books — 141 voters

The Americans by Robert  FrankDiane Arbus by Diane ArbusLet Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
Exceptional Photography Books*
564 books — 196 voters
Eating the Empire by Troy Bickham
Commoditgraphs
101 books — 29 voters

Charcuterie by Michael RuhlmanPreserves by Pam CorbinThe Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz
Essential Preserving Books
32 books — 9 voters
The Year 1000 by Robert Lacey
Books for History Geeks
375 books — 41 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
241 books — 204 voters
The Year 1000 by Robert Lacey
Best Medieval History Books
832 books — 394 voters

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Mexican Literature
393 books — 224 voters
English Cottage Gardening by Margaret HenselGeoff Hamilton's Cottage Gardens by Geoff Hamilton
Cottage Garden
22 books — 6 voters


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