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Listopia > Book Lists Liked by KayTea (12 Lists)



Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
1,105 books — 1,267 voters
Bridge of Birds by Barry HughartThe Tales of the Otori Trilogy by Lian HearnThe Twelve Kingdoms by Fuyumi OnoEon by Alison GoodmanMonkey by Wu Cheng'en
Chinese and Japanese Fantasy
315 books — 441 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
765 books — 1,933 voters
Cinder by Marissa MeyerEmpress of All Seasons by Emiko JeanEon by Alison GoodmanThe Poppy War by R.F. KuangThe Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Asian Fantasy & Science Fiction
505 books — 304 voters

Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay PenmanSimply Love by Mary BaloghFalls the Shadow by Sharon Kay PenmanWhen Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa JamesThe Reckoning by Sharon Kay Penman
Romance in Wales (and/or) Welsh Heroes and Heroines
168 books — 115 voters
Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinThe Study of Language by George YuleMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Best Books about Linguistics
256 books — 224 voters

Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay PenmanFalls the Shadow by Sharon Kay PenmanThe Reckoning by Sharon Kay PenmanA Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan ThomasThe Mabinogion by Unknown
Books Set in Wales
499 books — 214 voters
Ready Player One by Ernest ClineThe Martian by Andy WeirOld Man's War by John ScalziThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,200 books — 9,117 voters

The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerThe King Must Die by Mary RenaultCirce by Madeline MillerThe Last of the Wine by Mary RenaultThe Iliad by Homer
Classical Fiction
72 books — 67 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"
1,021 books — 604 voters

Beowulf by UnknownThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain PoetThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriLe Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Best Medieval Literature
166 books — 134 voters
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Wars of the Roses by Alison WeirThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison WeirThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
British History
813 books — 204 voters


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