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1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonJohn Adams by David McCulloughA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
U.S. History Reading List
436 books — 134 voters
Escape to the Maroons by Mike WeedallTestament of Youth by Vera BrittainHet Achterhuis by Anne FrankVirginia Woolf by Hermione LeeCall the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
Herstory
591 books — 127 voters

Bel Canto by Ann PatchettCloud Atlas by David MitchellAmadeus by Peter ShafferDoctor Faustus by Thomas MannThe Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Classical Music themes in Literature
167 books — 113 voters
The Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons by Sophie NevilleRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëSpencer Tracy by James Curtis
Classic Film Books
428 books — 109 voters

Sister Outsider by Audre LordeBlack Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill CollinsAin't I a Woman by Bell HooksSister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-PerryFeminist Theory by Bell Hooks
Black Feminist/Womanist Studies (nonfiction)
128 books — 107 voters
A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Cold War (nonfiction)
353 books — 98 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherTithing and Giving by J.A. CoxThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. JacobsThe Trigger by Tim ButcherAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Memoirs of Experiments
236 books — 97 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherJourney to the West by Biao WangThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Vote For Your 100 Favorite Non-Fiction Books of All Time
413 books — 96 voters

The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakStiff by Mary RoachCome As You Are by G. Scott Graham
Death - Fiction and Non-Fiction
217 books — 89 voters
A Child Called "It" by Dave PelzerThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsDear Teddy by J.D. StockholmThis Childhood of Mine by Laura Meer BarkleyTelling Teddy by J.D. Stockholm
Non-fiction Dysfunctional Families
71 books — 87 voters

Just Juliet by Charlotte ReaganValentine by Julie ManninoFun Home by Alison BechdelLittle Red Riding Hood by Julie ManninoSecrets by Julie Mannino
Great LGBTQIA+ Reads
264 books — 83 voters
My Fight / Your Fight by Ronda RouseyThe Frailty Myth by Colette DowlingBloomer Girls by Debra A. ShattuckDust Bowl Girls by Lydia ReederHer Own Hero by Wendy L. Rouse
Non-Fiction About Women in Sports
334 books — 81 voters

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenUprooted by Peter J. BoniSeparate Things by Ashley Marie BerryVoluntary Madness by Norah VincentAwakenings by Oliver Sacks
Biographies/Memoirs with Mental Hospitals and Asylums settings (nonfiction)
99 books — 77 voters
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftThe Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth GaskellThe Subjection of Women by John Stuart MillThe Autobiography of Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger
Early Feminists
185 books — 75 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XThe Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos CastanedaLakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
1968 - The year that rocked the world (fiction and nonfiction)
232 books — 72 voters
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiPassing Clouds by G.A.A. KentThe Music and the Wood by G.A.A. KentEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Engaging Memoirs and (Auto)Biographies
160 books — 72 voters

Hunger by Roxane GayDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSouth and West by Joan DidionThe Radium Girls by Kate MooreThe Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
244 books — 70 voters
Matisse the Master by Hilary SpurlingRenoir, My Father by Jean RenoirLeonardo da Vinci by Walter IsaacsonNegative Space by Lilly DancygerA Life of Picasso, Vol. 1 by John Richardson
Artist Biographies
200 books — 68 voters

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. KluneThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigBeach Read by Emily HenryThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
What Women Born in the 80's are Reading in 2021
908 books — 67 voters
Dark Skies by David HaldaneThelonious Monk by Robin D.G. KelleyMiles by Miles DavisA Love Supreme by Ashley KahnMoving to Higher Ground by Wynton Marsalis
Books on Jazz (nonfiction)
231 books — 66 voters

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Dutch House by Ann PatchettDear Edward by Ann NapolitanoThe Guest List by Lucy Foley
2020: What WOMEN Born in the 1960s Have Read So Far
721 books — 64 voters
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki HoustonThey Called Us Enemy by George TakeiWishful Drinking by Carrie FisherA Stolen Life by Jaycee DugardFunny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
California Memoirs
198 books — 63 voters

Journey to the West by Biao WangThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownFarewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki HoustonI Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Ethnic/Cultural Memoirs
498 books — 61 voters
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Female Naturalist Writers
282 books — 61 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteHow to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby YoungNegative Space by Lilly DancygerJust Kids by Patti Smith
New York Eats Its Young
72 books — 58 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelLife, the Universe and Everything by Douglas AdamsThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Story of My Life by Helen KellerIf Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck
This is the.......life
1,162 books — 57 voters

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionGone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2014: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2014
523 books — 54 voters
Pro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
"Best" Political Reads
106 books — 52 voters

Funny Story by Emily HenryCheck & Mate by Ali HazelwoodNorth Woods by Daniel MasonThe Women by Kristin HannahButcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
2024: What Women Born in the 1980's are Reading in 2024
1,055 books — 40 voters
Among the Buildings That Touch the Sky- Philadelphia by Elaine A. KellyAnimal Farm by George Orwell1984 by George OrwellAlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
General Press Bestsellers
31 books — 16 voters

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