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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Len (28 Lists)



Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
Books I Have No Intention of Reading (Fiction)
642 books — 710 voters
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Apocalypses and Dystopias
902 books — 667 voters

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Books About Video Games and Virtual Reality
451 books — 855 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Gunslinger by Stephen King
Most Interesting World
8,204 books — 4,996 voters

Bronx Noir by S.J. Rozan
Bronx Books
10 books — 5 voters
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
Content Warning—Rape/Sexual Assault/Sexual Abuse
314 books — 60 voters

A Promised Land by Barack ObamaThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinRecursion by Blake CrouchBecoming by Michelle Obama
52 Book Club 2021: #2 Featuring the legal profession
138 books — 54 voters
Arabella and the Battle of Venus by David D. LevineIndigo by Charlaine HarrisFarming While Black by Leah Penniman
Popsugar 2021 #36 - A Book with Fewer than 1000 Reviews
495 books — 163 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderHow to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouStamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. KendiHow Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin
Popsugar 2021 #20 - A Book on a Black Lives Matter Reading List
143 books — 198 voters
Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaGideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirThe Gunslinger by Stephen KingDread Nation by Justina Ireland
Popsugar 2021 #21 - A Genre Hybrid
181 books — 231 voters

The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee TaylorEvery Body Yoga by Jessamyn StanleyWhat We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Popsugar 2021 #19 - A Book that Discusses Body Positivity
116 books — 202 voters
Lasher by Anne RiceThe Witching Hour by Anne RiceTaltos by Anne Rice
Popsugar 2021 #10 - A Bestseller from the 1990s
231 books — 202 voters

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter MosleyIntimations by Zadie Smith
Popsugar 2021 #17 - A Book that has the Same Title as a Song
446 books — 284 voters
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Popsugar 2021 #39 - A Book Everyone Seems to have Read but You
167 books — 205 voters

Homegoing by Yaa GyasiA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Popsugar 2021 #29 - A Book Set in Multiple Countries
364 books — 233 voters
Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous
Popsugar 2021 #25 - A Book that was Published Anonymously
88 books — 147 voters

Passing by Nella LarsenBlack No More by George S. Schuyler
The Harlem Renaissance
142 books — 73 voters
The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasB-More Careful by Shannon Holmes
Good Urban Literature
165 books — 293 voters

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
Books For The Resistance
45 books — 14 voters
Well-Read Black Girl by Glory EdimThick by Tressie McMillan CottomBlack Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2019
317 books — 251 voters

When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-CullorsThis Will Be My Undoing by Morgan JerkinsBecoming by Michelle ObamaNot That Bad by Roxane Gay
2018 Non-male Non-Fiction
304 books — 146 voters
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
2017 Adult SFF by Authors of Color
52 books — 58 voters

The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria by Carlos HernandezThe Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
2016 Adult SFF by Authors of Color
56 books — 53 voters
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Black Feminist/Womanist Studies (nonfiction)
132 books — 111 voters

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
#BlackLivesMatter Reading List
626 books — 290 voters
Octavia's Brood by Adrienne Maree Brown
Hugo 2016 Eligible Works
477 books — 1,086 voters

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'MalleyDeath Note, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi OhbaSaga #1 by Brian K. Vaughan
Graphic Novels that are Quality
1,104 books — 778 voters
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,729 books — 25,612 voters