Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Susan (16 Lists)



All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrA Spool of Blue Thread by Anne TylerStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelDreaming Spies by Laurie R. KingFunny Girl by Nick Hornby
NY Times Fiction Best Sellers 2015
101 books — 535 voters
Bel Canto by Ann PatchettThe Lacuna by Barbara KingsolverSmall Island by Andrea LevyThe Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
Orange Prize for Fiction Winners
30 books — 130 voters

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Best Beach Reads 2013
2,204 books — 4,189 voters
The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart NevilleCal by Bernard MacLavertyFaithful Place by Tana FrenchDubliners by James Joyce
Best Irish Literature
633 books — 722 voters

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,316 books — 4,571 voters
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Literary Historical Fiction
1,146 books — 1,091 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Collector by John FowlesLast Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.Shutter Island by Dennis LehaneChild of God by Cormac McCarthy
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,250 books — 11,561 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertOliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,720 books — 6,886 voters

The Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinFrog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold LobelAre You My Mother? by P.D. EastmanDon't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo WillemsGo, Dog. Go! by P.D. Eastman
Best Children's Books
5,354 books — 6,739 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazThe Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David WroblewskiThe Known World by Edward P. Jones
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,856 books — 22,178 voters

A Red Death by Walter MosleyThe Octopus by Frank NorrisAsk the Dust by John FantePost Office by Charles BukowskiThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Novels Set in California
922 books — 371 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,057 books — 121,845 voters

The Jungle by Upton SinclairThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigCannery Row by John SteinbeckNative Son by Richard Wright
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,889 books — 49,791 voters
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry NivenThe Falcon and the Snowman by Robert LindseyCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
A List for Those Who Want to Run Screaming at the Mention of Sparkly Vampires, Fifty Shades of Abusive Relationships, or Other Assorted Mass Marketed Crap
1,201 books — 584 voters