Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/132626-martha">Martha</a> (19 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Martha (19 Lists)

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman

519 books — 144 voters

Book Uncle and Me by Uma Krishnaswami

Children's Books About Voting

182 books — 43 voters

A Different Pond by Bao Phi

2018 Mock Caldecott

104 books — 154 voters

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

Comics & Graphic Novels by Women

1,498 books — 1,383 voters

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

10,142 books — 2,883 voters

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Maurice by E.M. Forster

Best LGBTQIA literature

1,955 books — 2,231 voters

The Young in One Another's Arms by Jane Rule

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

Best Lesbian Fiction

2,162 books — 2,708 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Forced to read in school, but hated

320 books — 561 voters

Larklight by Philip Reeve

Un Lun Dun by China Miéville

The Native Star by M.K. Hobson

The Warlord of the Air by Michael Moorcock

The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt

Best Steampunk Books

1,293 books — 4,160 voters

The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger

The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Book of Fred by Abby Bardi

The Librarian by Larry Beinhart

Books About Librarians

459 books — 578 voters

Flush by Virginia Woolf

Best Books About Animals

1,874 books — 1,968 voters

Mission Child by Maureen F. McHugh

Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler

Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper

Most Under-rated Science Fiction

2,180 books — 2,689 voters

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy

Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt

King Rat by China Miéville

The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch

The Best Fairytales and Retellings

2,864 books — 9,238 voters

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas

Troll by Johanna Sinisalo

Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature

1,229 books — 1,254 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Books about Books

1,394 books — 1,524 voters

Library by Matthew Battles

Gratia Countryman by Jane Pejsa

Books about Books and Libraries

852 books — 431 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Best African American Books

1,083 books — 1,352 voters

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

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis

Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart

What Book Would You Like To Live In?

8,790 books — 9,046 voters

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Blindness by José Saramago

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

4,090 books — 26,992 voters