Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/11389969-lisa">Lisa</a> (32 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lisa (32 Lists)

Saqiyuq by Nancy Wachowich

Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga

The Prisoner's Wife by Asha Bandele

Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi

Head Above Water by Buchi Emecheta

Women of Color (Biographies and Autobiographies)

261 books — 33 voters

Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda

Thirteen Cents by K. Sello Duiker

The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga

Cette aveuglante absence de lumière by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole

25 African Male Writers You Should Read

31 books — 12 voters

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

The Wedding of Zein and Other Sudanese Stories by Tayeb Salih

Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni

Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi

Fairytales for Lost Children by Diriye Osman

Books from countries under the US entry ban

104 books — 20 voters

Baboon by Naja Marie Aidt

We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen

The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul

The Brummstein by Peter Adolphsen

Danish Literature - in English

93 books — 40 voters

This Earth, My Brother by Kofi Awoonor

What should be my first book of 2016

17 books — 42 voters

Heatwave and Crazy Birds by Gabriela Avigur-Rotem

The Years by Virginia Woolf

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Gazelle by Rikki Ducornet

The Blue Fox by Sjón

Your Top 5 Reads in 2015

1,518 books — 874 voters

Changes by Ama Ata Aidoo

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah

Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah

Beyond the Horizon by Amma Darko

Comes the Voyager at Last by Kofi Awoonor

Novels from Ghana

78 books — 26 voters

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi

Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat

Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi

Les enfants du nouveau monde by Assia Djebar

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

Best Books by Muslim Women

287 books — 409 voters

Heatwave and Crazy Birds by Gabriela Avigur-Rotem

The Jade Cabinet by Rikki Ducornet

Changes by Ama Ata Aidoo

Ice by Anna Kavan

The American Woman in the Chinese Hat by Carole Maso

500 Great Books By Women Group - Summer of Women 2015

212 books — 52 voters

Angels of the Universe by Einar Már Guðmundsson

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Maqroll by Álvaro Mutis

Great Short Short Books

585 books — 525 voters

Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks

Saqiyuq by Nancy Wachowich

Flow by Elissa Stein

Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi

Conquest by Andrea Lee Smith

594 books — 114 voters

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalists/Nominees

108 books — 21 voters

A Blade of Grass by Lewis DeSoto

The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Myers

The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji

The Obamas by Peter Firstbrook

Too Close to the Sun by Sara Wheeler

Acacia Tree Cover Meme

91 books — 53 voters

Heatwave and Crazy Birds by Gabriela Avigur-Rotem

Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Blue Fox by Sjón

Gazelle by Rikki Ducornet

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,215 books — 28,374 voters

The Ice-Shirt by William T. Vollmann

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

Replacement by Tor Ulven

Saqiyuq by Nancy Wachowich

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,157 books — 3,684 voters

Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

Heatwave and Crazy Birds by Gabriela Avigur-Rotem

The Blue Fox by Sjón

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Favorite Translated Literature

1,037 books — 503 voters

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi

Women Around the World

1,178 books — 438 voters

Mayombe by Pepetela

The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor and Other Stories by Hama Tuma

A Shattering of Silence by Farida Karodia

Beyond the Horizon by Amma Darko

The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera

African Writers Series

239 books — 63 voters

The Ice-Shirt by William T. Vollmann

Beloved by Toni Morrison

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

(Not) Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century

102 books — 164 voters

Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Embers by Sándor Márai

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Fortress by Meša Selimović

Greatest Eastern European Classics

445 books — 265 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Penguin Modern Classics

416 books — 491 voters

Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

World War One Literature

226 books — 358 voters

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah

Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto

The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

100 books — 66 voters

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté

Substance Abuse & Addiction

721 books — 1,322 voters

Last Stories and Other Stories by William T. Vollmann

A Place in the Country by W.G. Sebald

The Brunist Day of Wrath by Robert Coover

Min kamp 3 by Karl Ove Knausgård

Europe in Sepia by Dubravka Ugrešić

The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2014 Book Preview

94 books — 402 voters

Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

Best Canadian Literature

2,340 books — 1,150 voters

The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński

Books by Journalists

438 books — 106 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time

106 books — 985 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet

763 books — 1,837 voters

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

1001 Books I'd Rather Die than Read

967 books — 862 voters

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