Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/3344095-savanna">Savanna</a> (25 Lists)

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The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Best Magical Realism: Witchy Fiction

307 books — 482 voters

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Favorite Magical Realism Novels

1,396 books — 4,735 voters

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Dubliners by James Joyce

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy

Collections of Short Stories

2,984 books — 2,113 voters

Canadian Women in Print, 1750–1918 by Carole Gerson

Women, Resistance & Revolution by Sheila Rowbotham

Joan of Arc by Kathryn Harrison

Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution by Olwen H. Hufton

Women's History Written by Women

991 books — 203 voters

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Best "Strong Female" Fantasy Novels

4,898 books — 19,077 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

Best Feminist Science Fiction/Fantasy

716 books — 670 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Strong Female Characters Written by Female Authors

1,671 books — 1,405 voters

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

Where We Stand by bell hooks

Best Feminist Books

3,075 books — 4,513 voters

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

Best Kick-Ass Female Characters From YA and Children's Fantasy and Science Fiction

3,352 books — 8,943 voters

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,801 books — 49,900 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy & Science Fiction to read before you die.

1,186 books — 1,112 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

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

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Books Worth Escaping Into

326 books — 169 voters

Elizabeth and Mary by Jane Dunn

Six Wives by David Starkey

Elizabeth by David Starkey

Bloody Mary by Carolly Erickson

Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir

Female Biographies

1,293 books — 493 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,208 books — 28,383 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Best Books Ever

80,089 books — 298,462 voters

The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Pomes All Sizes by Jack Kerouac

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

529 books — 415 voters

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK

1,123 books — 10,102 voters

The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan

The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer

Elizabeth and Mary by Jane Dunn

Elizabeth by David Starkey

Six Wives by David Starkey

From Adam's Rib? -- Women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

282 books — 138 voters

Six Wives by David Starkey

Elizabeth and Mary by Jane Dunn

Bloody Mary by Carolly Erickson

Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles by Margaret George

Best Books About Tudor England

640 books — 1,670 voters

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

Books Touted as Having 'Strong Female Leads' That Actually Make Feminists Roll in Their Graves

193 books — 344 voters

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Irma Voth by Miriam Toews

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Beatitude by Larry Closs

Best Cover Art 2011 (Non-YA)

293 books — 1,537 voters

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,804 books — 22,833 voters

Collected Writings by Thomas Paine

Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

1984 by George Orwell

Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Best Books to Become an Informed Voter

994 books — 1,240 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Best School Assigned Books

768 books — 2,068 voters

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Redwall by Brian Jacques

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,884 books — 27,098 voters