Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/13977573-susan">Susan</a> (16 Lists)

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

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017

523 books — 2,009 voters

Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson

Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum

Goodreads Picks For Tournament of Books 2016

284 books — 1,362 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King

Funny Girl by Nick Hornby

NY Times Fiction Best Sellers 2015

101 books — 536 voters

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Small Island by Andrea Levy

The 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

2,205 books — 4,188 voters

The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville

Cal by Bernard MacLaverty

Faithful Place by Tana French

Dubliners by James Joyce

Best Irish Literature

635 books — 723 voters

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

Favorite Magical Realism Novels

1,362 books — 4,704 voters

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Literary Historical Fiction

1,206 books — 1,389 voters

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Collector by John Fowles

Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,301 books — 11,670 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,754 books — 6,913 voters

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems

Go, Dog. Go! by P.D. Eastman

Best Children's Books

5,417 books — 7,027 voters

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,840 books — 22,455 voters

A Red Death by Walter Mosley

The Octopus by Frank Norris

Ask the Dust by John Fante

Post Office by Charles Bukowski

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

Novels Set in California

967 books — 383 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,843 books — 124,660 voters

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Native Son by Richard Wright

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,876 books — 49,844 voters

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven

The Falcon and the Snowman by Robert Lindsey

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

East 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

1,202 books — 584 voters