Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/13252396-jake-dretzka">Jake Dretzka</a> (42 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jake Dretzka (42 Lists)

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

1984 by George Orwell

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Your Top 5 Reads in 2017

751 books — 361 voters

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Anticipated 2015 Literary Fiction

195 books — 545 voters

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015 (fiction and nonfiction)

100 books — 205 voters

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction

99 books — 270 voters

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

What We've Read So Far in 2018

6,456 books — 677 voters

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

White Trash Literature

191 books — 52 voters

Burmese Days by George Orwell

Books Set in India

504 books — 414 voters

The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

The Washington Post's Best Political Nonfiction 2010

41 books — 36 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class

2,095 books — 1,532 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,350 books — 24,658 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Best Books of the Decade: 2010s

7,686 books — 14,157 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Best Beach Reads 2015

1,738 books — 2,268 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

1984 by George Orwell

Night by Elie Wiesel

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Rory's Book Club

173 books — 91 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Books That Made You Cry

1,606 books — 3,272 voters

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

Best Plays Ever

853 books — 1,129 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century

101 books — 480 voters

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

First Step 2 Forever by Justin Bieber

Confessions of a Guidette by Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi

Going Rogue by Sarah Palin

Birth Control is Sinful in the Christian Marriages and also R... by Eliyzabeth Yanne Strong-And...

Dealbreakers: If You Like This Book, We Won't Get Along

2,028 books — 5,323 voters

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Disappointing Books

2,735 books — 4,607 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Books That Exceeded Your Expectations

14,682 books — 16,386 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About

14,364 books — 14,605 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Great Books of Southern Fiction

379 books — 440 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Best YA Fiction with GLBTQQI themes / characters

1,960 books — 5,987 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Best Knock-out Novelettes - Novellas

367 books — 293 voters

The Stand by Stephen King

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

World War Z by Max Brooks

1984 by George Orwell

Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

1,245 books — 3,412 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Most Difficult Novels

588 books — 2,044 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Matilda by Roald Dahl

What Book Got You Hooked?

3,839 books — 10,489 voters

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom

The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK

1,133 books — 10,103 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The Holy Bible by Anonymous

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,603 books — 13,133 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

1984 by George Orwell

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,747 books — 25,986 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,189 books — 28,379 voters

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