Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/116362509-leslie-henry">Leslie Henry</a> (87 Lists)

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A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Green Mile by Stephen King

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,156 books — 3,681 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Romantic & Inspirational WWII Historical Fiction

39 books — 16 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Best United States Historical Fiction Books

75 books — 43 voters

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

8,566 books — 9,317 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan

An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson

A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

Best World War II History (nonfiction)

690 books — 506 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

50 Books That Will Change Your Life - Chapters/Indigo

468 books — 1,225 voters

It by Stephen King

Ghost Story by Peter Straub

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

Small Towns with Secrets

265 books — 217 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Historical Fiction set in Europe

229 books — 44 voters

It by Stephen King

The Stand by Stephen King

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Big Fat Reads Worth The Effort 2.0

45 books — 72 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Night by Elie Wiesel

Favourite WWII Era Books (fiction and non-fiction)

171 books — 37 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Young Adult Holocaust/WWII books

28 books — 15 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Best Historical Novels That Made You Cry

72 books — 60 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Favorite Historical Novels

265 books — 114 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

World Without End by Ken Follett

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the past 45 yrs

1,126 books — 1,160 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,410 books — 123,428 voters

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Best Detective/Mystery Series

2,289 books — 2,492 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Best Woman-Authored Books

8,662 books — 5,731 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

Best Books of the Decade: 2010s

7,718 books — 14,318 voters

The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

If It Bleeds by Stephen King

Best Books of the Decade: 2020's

2,990 books — 5,508 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,839 books — 22,305 voters

Billy Summers by Stephen King

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan

Best Books of 2021

1,438 books — 1,623 voters

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie

Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body by M.C. Beaton

Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie

Fun Holiday Themed Mysteries

169 books — 86 voters

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout

Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter

Top 100 Mysteries of the 20th Century

98 books — 72 voters

Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie

And Four to Go by Rex Stout

An English Murder by Cyril Hare

Christmas Mysteries

429 books — 207 voters

The Stand by Stephen King

Dracula by Bram Stoker

It by Stephen King

Watchers by Dean Koontz

Koko by Peter Straub

Creepy Halloween Stories

188 books — 133 voters

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Classic Mysteries (fiction)

235 books — 181 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Best Action-Adventure Novels

2,622 books — 2,827 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Girls of the Past

120 books — 37 voters

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Best Historical Thrillers

214 books — 136 voters

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly

Eternal by Lisa Scottoline

The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin

The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly

Historical Fiction 2021

457 books — 752 voters

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