Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Zoë (13 Lists)



S/He by Minnie Bruce PrattFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggA Lesbian Belle Tells by Elizabeth McCainLittle Altars Everywhere by Rebecca WellsMy Mama's Dead Squirrel by Mab Segrest
Southern Femme Realness
6 books — 1 voter
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsaySeven Sisters Style by Rebecca TuiteCollege Girls by Lynn PerilOlivia by Dorothy StracheyThey'll Never Make a Movie Starring Me by Alice Bach
We Get It, You Went to a Women's College
17 books — 1 voter

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian FadermanBoots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky KennedyThe Persistent Desire by Joan NestleThe Femme Mystique by Lesléa NewmanButch Is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman
lesbian
8 books — 1 voter
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Butch Women and Female Masculinity
238 books — 81 voters

The Secret History by Donna TarttA Separate Peace by John KnowlesA Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba BrayBunny by Mona AwadRed Rising by Pierce Brown
Academic Thriller/Mystery
5 books — 1 voter
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghBlack Swans by Eve BabitzThe White Album by Joan DidionThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
girlblogger reading list
29 books — 8 voters

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Lesbian Feminist Fiction
105 books — 21 voters
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe HallMy Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghLetters Home by Sylvia PlathGRACE KELLY IN THERAPY by Paul DawsonThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
Summer of Solitude
10 books — 2 voters

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth HoffmanFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Red Rose Box by Brenda WoodsThe Help by Kathryn Stockett
Steel Magnolias
18 books — 7 voters
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,154 books — 2,271 voters

Little Women by Louisa May AlcottBeauty Queens by Libba Bray
Best Feminist Fiction
1,504 books — 2,673 voters
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba BrayEtiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
19th Century Fantasy
13 books — 5 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfValley of the Dolls by Jacqueline SusannGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote
Sad Midcentury Women
17 books — 2 voters