The Big Books of Fall

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jennifer (formerly Eccentric Muse) (41 Lists)



All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam ToewsThe Small Backs of Children by Lidia YuknavitchA Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Goodreads Picks For Tournament of Books 2016
284 books — 1,362 voters
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz2666 by Roberto BolañoThe Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria RilkeKing Lear by William ShakespeareCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Books I added to My Reading List Because of An Unnecessary Woman
70 books — 8 voters

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Unique Narrators
403 books — 353 voters
The Diviners by Margaret LaurenceA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth OzekiThe Orenda by Joseph BoydenBear by Marian EngelIndian Horse by Richard Wagamese
100 Canadian Books to Read in a Lifetime
124 books — 66 voters

The Piano Man's Daughter by Timothy FindleyThe Robber Bride by Margaret AtwoodHeadhunter by Timothy FindleyUnless by Carol ShieldsCat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
That Night in Toronto
216 books — 165 voters
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam ToewsMy Dog Always Eats First by Leslie IrvineFriend of My Youth by Alice MunroIn the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming
Titlemania II : My, My, My !
499 books — 26 voters

Villette by Charlotte BrontëMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Large Experimental Books by Women
90 books — 71 voters
The People in the Trees by Hanya YanagiharaThe Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem AslamBluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Time in Between by David BergenMy Antonia by Willa Cather
2014: Books read by women born in the 1960s this year
751 books — 159 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonJohnny Got His Gun by Dalton TrumboSay You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,231 books — 3,980 voters
Meditations in Green by Stephen Wright
Greenest Books Ever
2,476 books — 594 voters

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonVillette by Charlotte BrontëWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel ShriverThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Books with Unreliable Narrators
505 books — 495 voters
Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettSexing the Cherry by Jeanette WintersonLaughing Boy by Oliver La FargeLoitering with Intent by Muriel SparkThe Telling of Lies by Timothy Findley
Titlemania V: Participles & Gerunds
175 books — 10 voters

To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfOn Black Sisters Street by Chika UnigweIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteAfter Thunder by Bob SeltzerAmong Others by Jo Walton
Titlemania IV: I've got a preposition for ya'
601 books — 39 voters
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom RobbinsLook at Me by Jennifer EganBe Near Me by Andrew O'HaganThis Is The Way The World Ends by James K. MorrowNever Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
Titlemania III: Whole-Sentence Titles
1,447 books — 149 voters

Indian Horse by Richard WagameseThrough Black Spruce by Joseph BoydenThree Day Road by Joseph BoydenBorn With A Tooth by Joseph BoydenThe Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Native American Authors
331 books — 152 voters
February by Lisa Moore
Months of the Year
498 books — 64 voters

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonObservatory Mansions by Edward CareyIrma Voth by Miriam ToewsAlva & Irva by Edward CareyHeadhunter by Timothy Findley
Best Quirky Dark Novels
137 books — 175 voters
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne JohnstonThe Custodian of Paradise by Wayne JohnstonThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxThe Navigator of New York by Wayne JohnstonKit's Law by Donna Morrissey
Newfoundland Reads
264 books — 79 voters

The History of Love by Nicole KraussThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Hours by Michael CunninghamThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonMister Pip by Lloyd Jones
fiction in which the writing of a book features prominently
100 books — 50 voters
Through Black Spruce by Joseph BoydenFugitive Pieces by Anne MichaelsThe Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne JohnstonRiver of the Brokenhearted by David Adams RichardsThe Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,032 books — 900 voters

Through Black Spruce by Joseph BoydenNot Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy FindleyFugitive Pieces by Anne MichaelsThe White Bone by Barbara GowdyThe Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
Canadian Fiction
1,042 books — 605 voters
Black Robe by Brian MooreThe Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyreGilead by Marilynne RobinsonThe Sparrow by Mary Doria RussellThe spire, William Golding by Steve Eddy
Vicars, Priests, Abbots, Fathers, Abbesses, Pastors, Nuns
807 books — 298 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroPossession by A.S. ByattThe White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Booker Prize Winners
63 books — 2,009 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
SciFi Economies across the Eighth Dimension
63 books — 72 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroA Jest of God by Margaret LaurenceThe Hours by Michael CunninghamMother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Books on Loneliness
518 books — 499 voters
Look at Me by Jennifer EganInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriDe Niro's Game by Hage RawiGilead by Marilynne RobinsonA Mercy by Toni Morrison
Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
132 books — 235 voters

The Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodCat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerWhit by Iain BanksThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Author-Created Religions
107 books — 129 voters
The Hours by Michael CunninghamThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroSophie’s Choice by William StyronThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Both the book and the movie are good!
636 books — 323 voters


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