Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/11869072-jeanette">Jeanette</a> (18 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jeanette (18 Lists)

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)

563 books — 547 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer

Frederica by Georgette Heyer

Clean Regency (or around then) Romance Novels

811 books — 766 voters

Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart

My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart

Magical Books by Mary Stewart

27 books — 27 voters

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Misery by Stephen King

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Serena by Ron Rash

The Vilest Woman in Fiction

120 books — 95 voters

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears

Dissolution by C.J. Sansom

The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the past 45 yrs

1,139 books — 1,198 voters

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Great American Novel

673 books — 1,113 voters

The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Benevolence and Betrayal by Alexander Stille

War in Val d'Orcia by Iris Origo

Favourite WW2 Books Set in Italy

98 books — 114 voters

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

A Year in the South by Stephen V. Ash

My Favourite Non Fiction Books

1,412 books — 383 voters

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart

A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie

Books Set on Islands

1,078 books — 355 voters

Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey

The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne

Twins and Doppelgangers

162 books — 104 voters

The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel

Endless info dumping and exposition

65 books — 19 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck

Masters Of Misery

408 books — 102 voters

Light in August by William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Unvanquished by William Faulkner

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

The Black Flower by Howard Bahr

Mississippi Writers - Best 100 books by

305 books — 116 voters

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

Different Seasons by Stephen King

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Best Books for Smart People

712 books — 149 voters

Mrs. Mike by Benedict Freedman

Rural American Women's History (fiction and nonfiction)

178 books — 74 voters

Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige Hill

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Last 10 Nonfiction Books I Read

2,994 books — 1,160 voters

Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani

Special Interest Focused Fiction, Occupation or Hobby Themed

310 books — 42 voters

Four Sisters, All Queens by Sherry Jones

Historical Fiction 2012 Releases - Which books are you looking forward to the most?

163 books — 1,129 voters