Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/39035643-bookishwordish">BookishWordish</a> (36 Lists)

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Witch King by Martha Wells

System Collapse by Martha Wells

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

Can't Wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy of 2023

469 books — 1,086 voters

The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Everfair by Nisi Shawl

Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor

Non US-Centric Science Fiction

83 books — 31 voters

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

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Best Fantasy of the 20th Century

586 books — 254 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century

3,118 books — 10,060 voters

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

Alanna by Tamora Pierce

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Girls disguised as Boys

858 books — 966 voters

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,567 books — 26,609 voters

Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett

Best Books With Witches

1,796 books — 2,421 voters

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

Thud! by Terry Pratchett

Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett

The Best of Discworld!

88 books — 994 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

Ulysses by James Joyce

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Modernist Literature

188 books — 66 voters

Harry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. Rowling

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

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Children's Books I'll Re-Read No Matter How Old I Am

2,558 books — 3,750 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Strong Female Characters Written by Female Authors

1,669 books — 1,400 voters

Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld

Ash by Malinda Lo

Huntress by Malinda Lo

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Lumberjanes, Vol. 1 by N.D. Stevenson

262 books — 150 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Best Woman-Authored Books

8,662 books — 5,733 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

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

3,210 books — 8,783 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Best of Brontë

24 books — 369 voters

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

1984 by George Orwell

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Unconventional, Seductive, Intelligent and Dizzyingly Surreal

744 books — 388 voters

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read

784 books — 1,401 voters

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Memoirs and Such for Aspiring Memoirists

106 books — 31 voters

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

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,874 books — 6,999 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Marley and Me by John Grogan

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography

6,316 books — 7,043 voters

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,267 books — 8,079 voters

Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

Ash by Malinda Lo

Far from Xanadu by Julie Anne Peters

Empress of the World by Sara Ryan

Lesbian teen fiction

520 books — 724 voters

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time

902 books — 1,190 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class

624 books — 2,760 voters

The Men with the Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger

The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russo

Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis Crompton

The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

522 books — 142 voters

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts

The Men with the Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger

Whipping Girl by Julia Serano

Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction

837 books — 492 voters

The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer

Dust and Shadow by Lyndsay Faye

A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle

Beyond Conan Doyle - Best of the Continuing Cases of Sherlock Holmes

273 books — 269 voters

Dust and Shadow by Lyndsay Faye

The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett

My Dearest Holmes by Rohase Piercy

Best Sherlock Holmes Pastiches

482 books — 503 voters

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Best LGBTQIA literature

1,794 books — 2,216 voters

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Ash by Malinda Lo

Best Lesbian Fiction

2,053 books — 2,687 voters

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