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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ifedayo (20 Lists)



Becoming by Michelle ObamaAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieEducated by Tara WestoverThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
President Obama's Favorite Books 2018
29 books — 10 voters
The Holy Bible by Anonymous
A Book My Father Gave Me
264 books — 222 voters

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Ou... by Philip Gourevitch
The Guardian's Top 100 Non-Fiction Books
102 books — 71 voters
The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul StarrCrossing the Quality Chasm by Committee on Quality of Hea...Redefining Health Care by Michael E. PorterComplications by Atul GawandeYour Money or Your Life by David M. Cutler
Understanding Health Policy and Economics
50 books — 38 voters

Stiff by Mary Roach
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,882 books — 2,262 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best by African Authors
411 books — 224 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckLolita by Vladimir NabokovGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class
621 books — 2,765 voters
Great Expectations by Charles DickensEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
Oprah's Book Club Picks
132 books — 2,206 voters

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Books that Make you Laugh
3,547 books — 5,232 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerBeowulf by Unknown
Forced to read in school, but hated
320 books — 561 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Couldn't Put The Book Down
17,651 books — 18,019 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,892 books — 1,775 voters

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Christian Intellect
1,417 books — 919 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Stranger by Albert CamusBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Most Difficult Novels
600 books — 2,065 voters

Complications by Atul GawandeMere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,425 books — 5,058 voters
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingTranscendent Kingdom by Yaa GyasiWhen Breath Becomes Air by Paul KalanithiBeing Mortal by Atul Gawande
Medicine and Literature
2,012 books — 2,275 voters

Forrest Gump by Winston GroomThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,138 books — 10,095 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeSophie’s Choice by William StyronOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,710 books — 13,277 voters