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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Caroline (45 Lists)



The Owl Service by Alan GarnerSelected Stories by Rhys Davies
From Wales and the Welsh
56 books — 16 voters
The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
A Buddhist Reading List
923 books — 1,198 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
What we've read so far in 2016
8,000 books — 1,011 voters
Cornrows and Cornfields by Celeste Doaks
2015 Poetry by African-Americans
26 books — 5 voters

Here by Wisława SzymborskaDivining for Starters by Carrie EtterImagined Sons by Carrie Etter
Contemporary Poetry
565 books — 456 voters
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria RilkeAutumn Sonata by Georg TraklCollected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. EliotThe Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
Best Poetry Publications
305 books — 192 voters

Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson
Canada Reads 2016
15 books — 9 voters
All for Nothing by Walter KempowskiBilly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben FountainThe Hunters by James Salter1914 by Jean EchenozStorm Warning by Vanessa Gebbie
Literature and War Readalong 2016
5 books — 1 voter

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
World War 2 books
393 books — 212 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Best German Authors
616 books — 707 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeIrisches Tagebuch by Heinrich Böll
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
988 books — 966 voters
The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke
Peirene Press
60 books — 30 voters

Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks
Must Read World War II Military History - European Theater of Operations (nonfiction)
314 books — 118 voters
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred OwenThe Penguin Book of First World War Poetry by Matthew George WalterThe War Poems by Wilfred OwenWar Reporter by Dan O'BrienTo the War Poets by John Greening
War Poetry
46 books — 20 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueRegeneration by Pat BarkerThe Eye in the Door by Pat BarkerThe Poems of Wilfred Owen by Jon StallworthyMemoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
WW I books
455 books — 127 voters
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
New Poetry books
469 books — 379 voters

Bonjour tristesse by Françoise SaganThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenPoems of Akhmatova by Anna AkhmatovaSelected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva
Europe Minus Men and English
855 books — 231 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMrs Dalloway by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfOrlando by Virginia WoolfThe Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
The Year of Reading Women #readwomen2014
334 books — 77 voters

The Mabinogion by UnknownThe Owl Service by Alan GarnerOn the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
Books Set in Wales
497 books — 212 voters
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
Best Historical Novels That Made You Cry
72 books — 61 voters

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensAtonement by Ian McEwanThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerOrlando by Virginia Woolf
Literary Historical Fiction
1,180 books — 1,288 voters
Drysalter by Michael Symmons RobertsThe Water Stealer by Maurice RiordanBad Machine by George SzirtesSpeak, Old Parrot by Dannie AbseAt the Time of Partition by Moniza Alvi
T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry - Shortlist 2013
10 books — 1 voter

Somme by Lyn MacdonaldDeath's Men by Denis Winter
Military History of the First World War
306 books — 120 voters
Somme by Lyn MacdonaldDeath's Men by Denis Winter
The Great War in Fiction and Non-Fiction
223 books — 90 voters

Somme by Lyn MacdonaldThe Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred OwenThe Penguin Book of First World War Poetry by Matthew George WalterThe War Poems by Siegfried SassoonAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Great War
769 books — 600 voters
Unexploded by Alison MacLeod
2013 Man Booker Prize Longlist
14 books — 267 voters

Pepys by Caroline GilfillanA Handful of Water by Rebecca GethinSalem in Seance by Susana H. CaseConvoy by Caroline Davies
Goodreads Poets
316 books — 345 voters
Atonement by Ian McEwanThe Charioteer by Mary RenaultFugitive Pieces by Anne MichaelsResistance by Owen SheersPayback by Gert Ledig
WWII Historic Fiction
1,502 books — 1,596 voters

Skybound by Aleksandr VoinovThe Charioteer by Mary RenaultThe Boy I Love by Marion HusbandAs Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
Best Gay Romance in Times of War
127 books — 228 voters
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotAriel by Sylvia PlathFour Quartets by T.S. EliotLunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
Best Poetry Books
3,049 books — 2,608 voters


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