The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Feminist Fiction
1,504 books — 2,674 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsLegend by Marie LuUnwind by Neal ShustermanDivergent by Veronica Roth
YA Dystopia Novels
1,888 books — 11,245 voters
Bitterblue by Kristin CashoreThe Light Between Oceans by M.L. StedmanGone Girl by Gillian FlynnInsurgent by Veronica Roth
Best Books of 2012
3,521 books — 9,203 voters

Drift by Rachel MaddowThe Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Best Progressive Reads
1,063 books — 710 voters

Solitaire by Kelley EskridgeThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleDivergent by Veronica Roth
Best Science Fiction With a Female Protagonist
1,386 books — 2,820 voters
Mockingjay by Suzanne CollinsWhite Cat by Holly Black
YA Novels of 2010
568 books — 2,950 voters

Mastiff by Tamora PierceHuntress by Malinda Lo
YA Novels of 2011
1,117 books — 6,648 voters

Fire Logic by Laurie J. MarksEarth Logic by Laurie J. MarksAsh by Malinda LoThe Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce
LGBT positive SFF
530 books — 222 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,375 voters

Crying Hands by Horst Biesold
Books on the Eugenics Movement
61 books — 23 voters
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBloodhound by Tamora PierceCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsFire by Kristin CashoreConfections of a Closet Master Baker by Gesine Bullock-Prado
Best Books of 2009
1,766 books — 6,934 voters

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaSo Long a Letter by Mariama BâThe Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,762 books — 1,642 voters
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Caribbean Literature
578 books — 263 voters

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,651 books — 3,592 voters
Bitterblue by Kristin CashoreInsurgent by Veronica Roth
YA Novels of 2012
1,237 books — 10,179 voters

Stardust by Neil GaimanThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienPrince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,099 voters
Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,827 books — 6,352 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryWhen She Woke by Hillary JordanThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsAnimal Farm by George OrwellUnwind by Neal Shusterman
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,986 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Giver by Lois LowryPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,575 books — 120,230 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Giver by Lois LowryHarry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. RowlingThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
8,061 books — 5,738 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
ONE DAY Best Summer Reads
1,666 books — 5,992 voters

Alanna by Tamora PierceThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Best Feminist Young Adult Books
1,321 books — 1,341 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Giver by Lois LowryBridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonAre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeJames and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
924 books — 2,380 voters


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