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Tough Guys Have Feelings Too by Keith NegleyThey All Saw a Cat by Brendan WenzelThe Violet Hour by Katie Roiphe
Your Top 5 Reads in 2016
657 books — 233 voters
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean VuongThis Accident of Being Lost by Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonSon of a Trickster by Eden RobinsonJane, Unlimited by Kristin CashoreLincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Your Top 5 Reads in 2017
749 books — 360 voters

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob JosephBorne by Jeff VandermeerThis Wound Is a World by Billy-Ray BelcourtHer Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoSpinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Your Top 5 Reads in 2018
639 books — 262 voters
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirIn the Dream House by Carmen Maria MachadoThe Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia WaiteOrange World and Other Stories by Karen RussellLent by Jo Walton
Your Top 5 Reads in 2019
667 books — 260 voters

The Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadShapes of Native Nonfiction by Elissa Washuta
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2019 Book Preview (July - September)
82 books — 40 voters
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
2019 YA Books with LGBT Themes
252 books — 717 voters

Love Beyond Body, Space & Time by Hope NicholsonThis Wound Is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourtfull-metal indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead
Two-Spirit / Indigenous LGBTQ Books
108 books — 33 voters
This Wound Is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourtfull-metal indigiqueer by Joshua WhiteheadIslands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
“Canadian” Indigenous Poetry
45 books — 10 voters

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le GuinHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki MurakamiAnnihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Trippy Books
843 books — 897 voters
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyFinal Exit by Derek HumphryThe American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica MitfordBeing Mortal by Atul GawandeHeavenly Bodies by Paul Koudounaris
Thanatopsis: Death, Dying, and Mortality
582 books — 264 voters

Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley
2017 YA/MG Books With POC Leads
259 books — 361 voters
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuireOur Own Private Universe by Robin TalleyNorse Mythology by Neil GaimanThe Love Interest by Cale DietrichStrange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
The "Can't Wait" Books of 2017
1,311 books — 3,824 voters

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Hugo 2017 Eligible Works
213 books — 352 voters
Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward
Lesbian Horror
65 books — 68 voters

The Price of Salt by Claire MorganTipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Best Lesbian Fiction
2,026 books — 2,650 voters
The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob ThomasMr. Kiss and Tell by Rob ThomasThe Silkworm by Robert GalbraithThe Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
If You Like Veronica Mars...
29 books — 24 voters

Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Best Books of 2015 That Are NOT Erotica
151 books — 47 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Memoirs of Madness
294 books — 375 voters

El Deafo by Cece Bell
Newbery 2015
140 books — 586 voters
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
Goodreads Picks For Tournament of Books 2016
283 books — 1,364 voters

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
What to read when you've finished Jane Austen
528 books — 676 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerGraceling by Kristin Cashore
Great Debut Novels
1,575 books — 1,473 voters