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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Clawdia (19 Lists)



All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2014 National Book Awards Longlist
40 books — 75 voters
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Contemporary British Novels
511 books — 408 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna TarttLife After Life by Kate AtkinsonThe Circle by Dave EggersLean In by Sheryl Sandberg
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 817 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeDisgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Booker Prize Winners
73 books — 2,016 voters

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithAnimal Farm by George OrwellRelativity by Albert EinsteinThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Most Influential Books
1,496 books — 5,302 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeOrientalism by Edward W. SaidBurmese Days by George OrwellWide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysA Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Books About Colonialism
688 books — 241 voters

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOur Inner Ape by Frans de WaalThe Honest Truth About Dishonesty by Dan ArielyPredictably Irrational by Dan ArielyFlourish by Martin E.P. Seligman
Human Behavior or Evolutionary Psychology
59 books — 60 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
MOST BORING BOOK EVER!
892 books — 467 voters

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Books on Books: Bookmaking, Biblioclasm, Bibliophilia
425 books — 362 voters
Delta of Venus by Anaïs NinThousand Cranes by Yasunari KawabataThe Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Penguin Modern Classics
416 books — 491 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwanPossession by A.S. Byatt
Literary Historical Fiction
1,179 books — 1,277 voters
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Elegant Universe by Brian GreeneFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,929 books — 3,628 voters

The Waves by Virginia WoolfSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
Most Difficult Novels
600 books — 2,064 voters
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
Histories of the Everyday
378 books — 434 voters

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2012
151 books — 268 voters
The Idea of Justice by Amartya SenDevelopment as Freedom by Amartya Sen
Political Economy Library
57 books — 27 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Plague by Albert CamusSons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 985 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
50 Books That Will Change Your Life - Chapters/Indigo
476 books — 1,239 voters

On Writing by Stephen King
Best Books on Writing
802 books — 1,333 voters