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The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best Historical Fiction
7,811 books — 26,047 voters
Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule MarshallTree of Life by Maryse CondéCreate Dangerously by Edwidge DanticatWide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Caribbean/West Indian Diaspora Literature - Women (fiction)
207 books — 153 voters

Old School by Tobias WolffLittle Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderMidnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny NimmoThe Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Boarding School Stories
973 books — 1,162 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,361 books — 123,407 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,802 books — 1,685 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset MaughamAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth SteinThe Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,935 books — 15,631 voters