Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/12097904-carol">Carol</a> (31 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Carol (31 Lists)

Diane Arbus by Patricia Bosworth

Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography

6,445 books — 7,452 voters

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe

Great Crime and Mysteries

184 books — 125 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,215 books — 28,374 voters

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

Best Crime & Mystery Books

7,460 books — 16,250 voters

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

Non Police/PI Mysteries

426 books — 86 voters

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

Best Detective/Mystery Series

2,301 books — 2,542 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Best Russian Literature

524 books — 2,306 voters

The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Best Southern Literature

1,382 books — 2,605 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Books Everyone Must Read

42 books — 30 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Books we think our kids would love, and that they refuse to even consider..

65 books — 45 voters

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Best Books 1950

104 books — 42 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

From Here to Eternity by James Jones

Best Books 1951

105 books — 50 voters

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Best Books 1948

85 books — 58 voters

The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler

Best Books 1943

119 books — 47 voters

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Best Books 1925

62 books — 63 voters

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco

The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

68 books — 63 voters

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The Third Man by Graham Greene

Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

Best Graham Greene novels

25 books — 202 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,567 books — 123,990 voters

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

New Children's Classics

380 books — 534 voters

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Books that Make you Laugh

3,517 books — 5,209 voters

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Funniest Novels of All Time

1,438 books — 2,390 voters

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

Ken Follett Novels

30 books — 193 voters

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith

Land of Ice and Snow

136 books — 68 voters

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

The Poet by Michael Connelly

Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

Detective Fiction

1,238 books — 1,139 voters

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Books that Made You Cry!

3,367 books — 7,994 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Stories For Book Lovers

8,476 books — 8,752 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,878 books — 49,831 voters

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Best Books of 2008

1,644 books — 6,770 voters

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Best Alternate History Novels and Stories

786 books — 1,337 voters

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Best Books Ever

78,352 books — 292,101 voters

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