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
2,203 books — 4,188 voters
The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart NevilleCal by Bernard MacLavertyFaithful Place by Tana FrenchDubliners by James Joyce
Best Irish Literature
632 books — 720 voters

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,306 books — 4,535 voters
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Literary Historical Fiction
1,140 books — 1,096 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
3,214 books — 11,330 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
1,704 books — 6,876 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
5,310 books — 6,709 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
9,828 books — 21,998 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
920 books — 369 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
31,653 books — 120,518 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
7,899 books — 49,785 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
1,181 books — 583 voters