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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Nora (24 Lists)



Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Fiction: Characters with Missing Limb/Amputation
432 books — 117 voters
Saving Charlotte by Pia de JongThe Assault by Harry Mulisch
Books Set in Amsterdam
90 books — 72 voters

A Time to Fly Free by Stephanie S. Tolan
Homeschool Fiction (the Great, Clichéd, and Rotten)
176 books — 94 voters
A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl by Nanda Reddy
Caribbean Literature
582 books — 266 voters

Center Line by Joyce SweeneyHideaway by Eloise Jarvis McGrawThe Hideaway Summer by Beverly Hollett RennerHomecoming by Cynthia Voigt
Children's and Young Adult Books With Abandoned Children Living Alone
92 books — 13 voters
Who I Am by M.L. Rice
Lockers on the cover
150 books — 26 voters

Lauren's Line by Sondra Spatt OlsenLucky Jim by Kingsley AmisChanging Places by David Lodge
Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics
500 books — 610 voters
A Bride of the Plains by Emmuska OrczyEmma McChesney and Co. by Edna FerberThe Forged Note by Oscar MicheauxGrass on the Wayside by Natsume SōsekiKnulp by Hermann Hesse
Best Books 1915
54 books — 37 voters

Traps by Sondra Spatt OlsenWartime Lies by Louis BegleyWild Swans by Jung ChangThe Truelove by Patrick O'BrianTar Beach by Faith Ringgold
Best Books of 1991
398 books — 173 voters
Lauren's Line by Sondra Spatt OlsenLife Mask by Emma DonoghueThe Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstBaker Towers by Jennifer HaighTruth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
Best Books of 2004
694 books — 249 voters

Allegra Maud Goldman by Edith KoneckyBig City Stories by Modern American Writers by Tom CahillChildren of Dune by Frank HerbertGive Dad my best by James Lincoln CollierHouston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr.
Best Books 1976
278 books — 72 voters
Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah CaudwellThe Shortest Way to Hades by Sarah CaudwellThe Sibyl in Her Grave by Sarah CaudwellThe Sirens Sang of Murder by Sarah Caudwell
Edward Gorey: Book Cover Art and Design
136 books — 12 voters

Hoods I Have Known by Sondra Spatt OlsenThe Ransom of Red Chief by O. HenryCharles by Shirley JacksonThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James ThurberA Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor
Best American (US) Short Stories
151 books — 24 voters
Hoods I Have Known by Sondra Spatt OlsenThe Great Automatic Grammatizator And Other Stories by Roald Dahl
Favourite Short Stories
17 books — 7 voters

Project Hail Mary by Andy WeirKlara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroFugitive Telemetry by Martha WellsLater by Stephen KingBlack Buck by Mateo Askaripour
Best Books of 2021
1,440 books — 1,627 voters
With or Without You by Brian FarreyMissed Her by Ivan E. Coyote
Windows
288 books — 33 voters

Black Mirror by Nancy Werlin
Books by and/or about Asian Jews
70 books — 9 voters
Get It Together, Delilah! by Erin Gough
Books with Drinks on the Cover
324 books — 75 voters

Making Room for Katherine by Philippa Greene Mulford
Girls with Short Hair on the Cover
183 books — 25 voters
The Night Gift by Patricia A. McKillip
The Color Purple
1,550 books — 407 voters

Tranny by Laura Jane Gracef2m by Hazel EdwardsSovereign by April Daniels
Booklist for Trans Teens
389 books — 490 voters
Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer
Books set in Bath
28 books — 31 voters

Nevada by Imogen BinnieBeing Emily by Rachel GoldStone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergMaxine Wore Black by Nora Olsen
Trans Lesbian & Bi Women Books
119 books — 84 voters
The End by Nora OlsenFrenemy of the People by Nora Olsen
Bisexual Fiction in YA
233 books — 205 voters