The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Feminist Fiction
1,526 books — 2,692 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsLegend by Marie LuUnwind by Neal ShustermanDivergent by Veronica Roth
YA Dystopia Novels
2,006 books — 11,523 voters
Bitterblue by Kristin CashoreThe Light Between Oceans by M.L. StedmanGone Girl by Gillian FlynnInsurgent by Veronica Roth
Best Books of 2012
3,516 books — 9,186 voters

Drift by Rachel MaddowThe Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Best Progressive Reads
1,071 books — 728 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
1,440 books — 3,110 voters
Mockingjay by Suzanne CollinsWhite Cat by Holly Black
YA Novels of 2010
569 books — 2,948 voters

Mastiff by Tamora PierceHuntress by Malinda Lo
YA Novels of 2011
1,139 books — 6,673 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
532 books — 225 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
7,215 books — 28,375 voters

Crying Hands by Horst Biesold
Books on the Eugenics Movement
62 books — 24 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
1,768 books — 6,927 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)
1,845 books — 1,728 voters
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Caribbean Literature
580 books — 264 voters

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,837 books — 4,053 voters
Bitterblue by Kristin CashoreInsurgent by Veronica Roth
YA Novels of 2012
1,272 books — 10,196 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 — 10,101 voters
Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,454 books — 7,465 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
4,001 books — 26,665 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
32,579 books — 124,037 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
8,096 books — 5,909 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 — 5,985 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
1,326 books — 1,346 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
927 books — 2,386 voters


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