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For my Shoujo / Josei beginner manga journey, I selected titles that are either popular, iconic, or highly rated. Follow along on my journey, and who knows, maybe I do a Part 2 of this list once I‘m finished. But this will probably take a while.
Edit: It has come to my attention that Witch Hat Atelier is not a Shoujo. I removed it from the list. However, I do still consider Houseki no Kuni and Komi Can’t Communicate to be Shoujo/Josei

An interest stack featuring the top 20 winners of the Kono Manga ga Sugoi!" (This Manga is Amazing! aka このマンガがすごい) annual magazine for 2007 (the year this ranking started!), with female and male winners included. It's a great way to find new and interesting manga to read, and serves as a time capsule for the popular manga of each year.

(There are usually 40 total winners, but I can't track down any site listing all of them from 2007 :( )

This stack will feature both male and female category winners, alternating between the female and male winners (with the exception of first place, since Honey and Clover was the cover for the 2006 stack), from first place to twentieth place.

Note that there can be ties here (usually two-way), and if a category is missing some place (for example, missing 14th place in the male's category), it usually indicates that either its title was not revealed as per the author's request, or there was a tie.

Please feel free to comment/DM if any information is off/missing.

Last updated: October 2024
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Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20200805071728/https://konomanga.jp/special/86773-2#a10
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MISSING FROM MAL:
4th place male readers' winner: Suzuki Sensei by Taketomi Kenji (JP Title: 鈴木先生), untranslated
MU: https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/k9n5a2w/suzuki-sensei

9th place female readers' winner: The Unruly Bookstore Owner by Kuze Banko (JP Title: 暴れん坊本屋さん), untranslated
MU: https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/komzllx/abarenbou-honya-san

best rated shoujo according to mal
all series are listed under the original series
all have to be readily available to read in English
they are in order of rating
I have not read them all so this is unbiased
i do plan to read all of them though
as of 6.10.24
this is 51-100
The reason for attack on titans inclusion is because of rule 2

First part of the 100 shoujo manga recommendations mentioned in their video Shoujo Manga INSPIRED Dandadan?!

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/58176

Recommended Manga/Manhwa that hasn't been adapted into anime part 15

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/5329
Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/6746
Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/6748
Part 4: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/55028
Part 5: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/55029
Part 6: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/55030
Part 7: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/55031
Part 8: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/60035
Part 9: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/60034
Part 10: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/60044
Part 11: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/60043
‎Part 12: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/62517
‎Part 13: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/62633
‎Part 14: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/62635
Part 16: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75737
Part 17: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75739
Part 18: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75742
Part 19: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75744
Part 20: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75925
Part 21: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75941
Part 22: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76030
Part 23: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75923
Part 24: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76105
Part 25: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76028
Part 26: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75939
Part 27: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75926
Part 28: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76029
Part 29: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75933
Part 30: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75938
Part 31: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75924
Part 32: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76375
Part 33: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76436
Part 34: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76503
Part 35: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76508
Part 36: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76952

These are the manga included in Colleen's manga recs video "Building a Shoujo Starter Pack" along with each manga's respective category from the video.

Manga from colleen's Manga Recs video "A definitive ranking of the top 100 shoujo on MyAnimeList"

Link to part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/67199

This list includes both omnibi geared toward being a budget option and omnibi geared toward being a deluxe option, so they will have different price points and quality levels. I'm not including shojo manga published have never been published under the Shojo Beat or Viz Shojo imprints (eg Tomie's omnibus or mermaid scales and the town of sand). I'm also not including anthology works or omnibi that don't compile a multi-volume series.

Feel free to let me know if I missed any omnibi for manga which have been published in the Shojo Beat or Viz Shojo lines (especially older ones Viz no longer has licensed).

List of Bessatsu Margaret series that have been officially licensed in English + Publishers