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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Chaundra (15 Lists)



The Moor's Account by Laila LalamiA Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon JamesThe Chimes by Anna SmaillSleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha RoyThe Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
Man Booker 2015 Long List
13 books — 174 voters
1984 by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,567 books — 123,990 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeNeverwhere by Neil GaimanThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Highbrow Fantasy Books
423 books — 631 voters
The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Female Lead Characters
4,895 books — 5,942 voters

Beauty by Robin McKinleyThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanStardust by Neil GaimanWicked by Gregory MaguireSpindle's End by Robin McKinley
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,845 books — 9,206 voters
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley RobinsonHis Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Best Alternate History
372 books — 687 voters

The Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteH.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'BrianWolf Hall by Hilary MantelDissolution by C.J. SansomJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Best Historical Fiction Set in UK and Ireland
1,410 books — 1,684 voters
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
You Want to Read in 2010
1,079 books — 1,972 voters

The Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Best Historical Fiction
7,920 books — 26,342 voters
Master & Commander by Patrick O'BrianTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Long Ships by Frans G. BengtssonFevre Dream by George R.R. MartinTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Nautical Novels
435 books — 332 voters

Starship Troopers by Robert A. HeinleinIn Conquest Born by C.S. FriedmanRevelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Excellent Space Opera
1,119 books — 3,823 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Best Feminist Science Fiction/Fantasy
707 books — 660 voters

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim EdwardsLife of Pi by Yann Martel
What To Read Next
20,932 books — 24,980 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon DahlquistShantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,374 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco1984 by George OrwellLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,831 voters