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Look Who's Morphing by Tom ChoHow to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles YuLove and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice by Nam LePortable Curiosities by Julie KohA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Books Where the Author is a Character
22 books — 4 voters
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles YuThe Water That Falls on You from Nowhere by John Chu
Chinese Science Fiction Novels
19 books — 24 voters

Look Who's Morphing by Tom ChoThe Water That Falls on You from Nowhere by John ChuThe Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann ChinAsh by Malinda LoSalt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai
Chinese Diaspora Literatures
128 books — 7 voters
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de WaalJakob the Liar by Jurek Becker
The Best Books that Follow an Object Through Time
80 books — 75 voters

The Dark Lake by Sarah BaileyPostmortem by Patricia Daniels CornwellA is for Alibi by Sue Grafton1222 by Anne HoltThe Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter
Crime Female Protagonist
128 books — 32 voters
Goddess by Kelly Gardiner
Remarkable Historical Women in Fiction
452 books — 233 voters

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergCarol by Claire MorganGiovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Best Gay Fiction
2,702 books — 3,914 voters
Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai
One Fish, Two Fish ...
530 books — 176 voters

Goddess by Kelly Gardiner
Best Historical Fiction
7,904 books — 26,302 voters
Cinder by Marissa MeyerScarlet by Marissa MeyerCress by Marissa MeyerCome Close by SapphoTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
What we've read so far in...2015
9,760 books — 2,153 voters

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley JacksonThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
Most Terrifying Short Stories
376 books — 497 voters
Look Who's Morphing by Tom ChoHow to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles YuThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Metafiction
444 books — 582 voters

White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Best British and Irish Literature
1,174 books — 1,116 voters
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahameThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Mill on the Floss by George EliotLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Book mentioned in the Thursday Next series
125 books — 10 voters

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Fiction Involving Rock/Pop Music
887 books — 1,086 voters
Look Who's Morphing by Tom ChoA Letter to Harvey Milk by Lesléa NewmanKrik? Krak! by Edwidge DanticatIn Love & Trouble by Alice Walker
The Best Single Author Short Story Collections
370 books — 114 voters

Obernewtyn by Isobelle CarmodyThe Chrysalids by John Wyndham
YA Dystopia Novels
2,003 books — 11,519 voters
The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann ChinGhost Wife by Michelle DicinoskiA Queer and Pleasant Danger by Kate BornsteinAimée & Jaguar by Erica FischerMean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway
Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction
838 books — 493 voters

Look Who's Morphing by Tom ChoSaving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Best Books Set in Australia
1,072 books — 593 voters
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Books I Regret Reading
2,306 books — 3,225 voters

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper FfordeWoman on the Edge of Time by Marge PiercyHow to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Best Time Travel Fiction
2,154 books — 5,435 voters
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne JonesThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Books Based on Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales, and Folktales
1,211 books — 772 voters

1984 by George OrwellHowl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
I Saw the Movie & Read the Book
1,913 books — 1,762 voters
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake ShangeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankWhen Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith KerrDoormat by Kelly McWilliamsAlanna by Tamora Pierce
Top 100 Middle School Must-Reads
2,314 books — 3,805 voters

I, Robot by Isaac AsimovWhipping Girl by Julia SeranoWoman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,551 books — 123,930 voters
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,990 books — 26,647 voters

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge PiercyWe by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,726 books — 25,776 voters