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The Murder Before Christmas by Michele Pariza WacekWrap It Up! by Bonnie HardyLady Cavendish’s Christmas Caper by Camille CabreraThe Mystery of Mistletoe Motel by Camille CabreraJoy to the Wool by Rebecca McKinnon
Merry and Bright: Holiday Picks
195 books — 64 voters
Dark Skies by David HaldaneBrooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old by Brooke ShieldsBibliophobia by Sarah ChihayaSong So Wild and Blue by Paul LisickyThe Harder I Fight the More I Love You by Neko Case
Memoirs Published in Year: 2025
284 books — 63 voters

Material Girls by Kathleen StockPrey by Ayaan Hirsi AliStill Mad by Sandra M. GilbertWhite Feminism by Koa BeckWhen Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Feminist Interest 2021
231 books — 57 voters
Educated by Tara WestoverDirtbag, Massachusetts by Isaac FitzgeraldLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren HoughDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerVeronica's Grave by Barbara Donsky
Non-fiction Family Secrets
221 books — 54 voters

Ace by Angela ChenThe Invisible Orientation by Julie Sondra DeckerHow to Be Ace by Rebecca BurgessA Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality by Molly MuldoonRefusing Compulsory Sexuality by Sherronda J. Brown
Books About Asexuality
25 books — 48 voters
American Midnight by Adam HochschildAnd There Was Light by Jon MeachamThe Russia Conundrum by Mikhail KhodorkovskyWeapons of Mass Delusion by Robert DraperA Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
Politics Published in Year: 2022
528 books — 42 voters

Joan of Arc by Mark TwainJoan by Donald SpotoJoan of Arc by Régine PernoudJoan by Katherine J. ChenThe Maid and the Queen by Nancy Goldstone
Joan of Arc Books
193 books — 36 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankAre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantCarrie by Stephen KingFlow by Elissa Stein
Menstruation
144 books — 36 voters

Wild Things by Bruce HandyThe Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Humphrey CarpenterChildren's Literature by Seth LererBookworm by Lucy ManganBeyond Babar by Sandra L. Beckett
Nonfiction Books on Children's Literature
417 books — 36 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiThe Long Winter by Laura Ingalls WilderI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouWild by Cheryl StrayedLeft to Tell by Immaculée Ilibagiza
Women Survivors
272 books — 35 voters

Positive Vision by Ken BrandtThunder Dog by Michael HingsonNow I See You by Nicole C. KearA Sense of the World by Jason RobertsFor the Benefit of Those Who See by Rosemary Mahoney
Blindness/Loss of Vision - NONFICTION
79 books — 30 voters
Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia ChildMy Life in France by Julia ChildNigella Bites by Nigella LawsonJoy of Cooking by Irma S. RombauerMy Kitchen Year by Ruth Reichl
Female Chefs
300 books — 29 voters

The Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyThe Truth-Seeker’s Handbook by Gleb Tsipursky
Science Published in Decade: 2020s
56 books — 29 voters
Peter the Great by Robert K. MassieFrederick Douglass by David W. BlightColonel Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisTruman by David McCulloughThe Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
Male Biographies: Biographies of Men
317 books — 27 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Holocaust Industry by Norman G. FinkelsteinThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonPlanting the Trees of Kenya by Claire A. Nivola
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2000s
260 books — 27 voters
Big Freedia by Big FreediaSexuality and Its Impact on History by Hunter S. JonesCreole by Sybil KeinBlack Life in Old New Orleans by Keith MedleyThe World That Made New Orleans by Ned Sublette
New Orleans (nonfiction)
93 books — 25 voters

The Mixtape by Brittainy C. CherryHave We Met? by Camille BakerThe Seven Day Switch by Kelly HarmsSong of the Forever Rains by E.J. MellowHer Last Breath by Hilary Davidson
Amazon First Reads June 2021
11 books — 25 voters
War Against the Weak by Edwin BlackThe Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay GouldThe Orphan Conspiracies by James MorcanBetter for All the World by Harry BruiniusIn Reckless Hands by Victoria F. Nourse
Books on the Eugenics Movement
62 books — 24 voters

Cult Girls by Natalie GrandCult Child by Vennie KocsisCultish by Amanda MontellTake Back Your Life by Janja LalichDo You QuantumThink? by Dianne Collins
Extremism and cults
236 books — 24 voters
Among the Buildings That Touch the Sky- Philadelphia by Elaine A. KellyBuck by M.K. AsanteTaking Flight by Michaela DePrinceThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William KamkwambaMo'ne Davis by Mo Davis
Young, Gifted, and Black
16 books — 23 voters

Falling Angels by Tracy ChevalierOpal Plumstead by Jacqueline WilsonThe Militant Suffragettes by Antonia RaeburnPatience & Esther by Sarah Winifred SearleSophia by Anita Anand
Suffragettes in the UK
37 books — 23 voters
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne CollinsSomewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. KluneProblematic Summer Romance by Ali HazelwoodGreat Big Beautiful Life by Emily HenryEverything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
2025: What People Born in the 1980's are Reading in 2025
503 books — 23 voters

American Gun by Cameron McWhirterYour Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir HillNortheast India by Samrat ChoudhuryOn Nixon's Madness by Zachary JacobsonIt's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
Politics Published in Year: 2023
402 books — 22 voters
Sharks by Catriona ClarkeSharks! by Anne SchreiberSharkabet by Ray TrollSharks! by Laurence PringleHungry, Hungry Sharks by Joanna Cole
Children's Books about Sharks
41 books — 21 voters

Travels in the Land of Hunger by Domenico Italo Composto-HartA Pilgrimage to Eternity by Timothy EganThe Sun Is a Compass by Caroline Van HemertTen Years a Nomad by Matthew KepnesA Savage Dreamland by David Eimer
Travel Published in Year: 2019
10 books — 21 voters
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonBlack Skin, White Masks by Frantz FanonIn My Father's House by Kwame Anthony AppiahPhilosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey by Amy Jacques-GarveyOn the Postcolony by Achille Mbembe
Philosophia Africana: Black Philosphers
69 books — 20 voters

Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckEast of Eden by John SteinbeckEsperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz RyanBlue Willow by Doris GatesDear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Books Set in Central California
132 books — 20 voters
The Heart in Winter by Kevin BarryLong Island by Colm TóibínThe Coast Road by Alan MurrinIntermezzo by Sally RooneyWild Houses by Colin Barrett
Irish Interest 2024
142 books — 19 voters

Beneath Devil's Bridge by Loreth Anne WhiteThe Darkest Flower by Kristin WrightThese Tangled Vines by Julianne MacLeanThe Puma Years by Laura ColemanBacchanal by Veronica G. Henry
Amazon First Reads May 2021
9 books — 18 voters
Diana by Andrew MortonThe Bodyguard's Story by Trevor Rees-JonesDiana, Princess of Wales by Carol GreeneThe Diana I knew by Mary RobertsonDiana by Sarah Bradford
Diana, Princess of Wales
33 books — 16 voters

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