Recs if you like An American Marriage...
Barack Obama's favorite books
All of his picks since 2008, both summer reading lists and yearly round-ups.
books your pretentious friend has heard of
Read Until You Understand
novels, poetry, literary criticism, and history books by Black authors referenced in Farah Jasmine Griffin’s Read Until You Understand; The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature — forming a type of Black literary canon
Book(s) of the Month(s) 📚
Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!
NYT Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)
Popular Fiction of the Decade
Goodreads 80 of the Past Decade’s Very Popular Fiction from 2016 - 2025
2025 Broken Country - Isola 2024 The Women - Real Americans 2023 Tom Lake - Weyward 2022 Demon Copperhead - Diamond Eye 2021 Reading List - Cloud Cuckoo Land 2020 My Dark Vanessa - Vanishing Half 2019 Giver of Stars - Girl, Woman, Other 2018 Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Where the Crawdads Sing 2017 Stay with Me - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 2016 Lilac Girls - Behold the Dreamers
NYT’s The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A list published in 2024 by the New York Times, as voted on by 503 novelists, poets, critics, and other book lovers—with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review
Prose Before Bros [book club]
Books read by Prose Before Bros, a book club for women of color in PDX
100 Best of the 21st Century
according to the New York Times
Overdue Podcast readalong
Keeping up with the 700+ books featured on Overdue since 2013
Women's Prize for Fiction Award Winners
The Women's Prize for Fiction was started in 1996 as a way to highlight exceptional women writers and to balance out the coverage that male writers received. The Women's Prize is awarded every year to the best novel written in English and published in the UK. There is also a Women's Prize for Nonfiction, created in 2023.
Belletrist Book Club
A compilation of all of Belletrist’s monthly picks
New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century
The list of the 100 best books of the 21st century from the New York Times
Read The States Challenge - Louisana
This is a list of books for the Read The States Challenge. Read any on each of the state lists and be awarded the pride of knowing you have read all across the US!
Women's Prize for Fiction Winners
Books that have won the Women's Prize for Fiction
Fae & Flame Society Women’s Prize Nominations
2019-2026
Women’s Prize for Fiction Winners
All the winners of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Women's fiction prize
Winners
Nationalities in Titles 🌍
Books you'll think about months (or years) later
