Gender Queer - Maia Kobabe - Autobiography charts Maia's journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma of pap smears

0 1 2 3 4 5

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel - Graphic memoir, Bechdel discusses her complicated relationship with her father.

0 1 2 3 4 5

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - in a highly advanced, dystopian world where eugenics and caste determine your life outcome from birth.

0 1 2 3 4 5

1984 by George Orwell - in a dystopian authoritarian England in which truth and freedom are forbidden, a man tries to keep his own mind and starts a love affair

0 1 2 3 4 5

Lady Chatterly’s Lover by DH Lawrence - After her husband's war injuries, a woman starts a love affair with her groundskeeper. One of the first real smut books.

0 1 2 3 4 5

Playing for Thrills by Wang Shuo - Follows the investigation of a murder in the Beijing underworld of the late 20th century.

0 1 2 3 4 5

The Color Purple by Alice Walker - Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence

0 1 2 3 4 5

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - a tragic story set in 1940s Ohio about an 11-year-old Black girl, Pecola Breedlove, who internalizes racism and believes she is ugly, praying for blue eyes to be considered beautiful and loved.

0 1 2 3 4 5

Vote! Show Results

Show

Show