Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1416725-robin">Robin</a> (22 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Robin (22 Lists)

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

World Without End by Ken Follett

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Best Historical Fiction Books that Are Actually Historical Fiction

2,759 books — 3,426 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

My Ántonia by Willa Cather

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Best Twentieth Century American Novels

328 books — 233 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

33,240 books — 126,069 voters

James by Percival Everett

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

2025 Tournament of Books Longlist

85 books — 334 voters

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

Best Books of 2019

1,440 books — 1,966 voters

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear

Historical Fiction 2019

430 books — 669 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

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

Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman

Books on Books: Bookmaking, Biblioclasm, Bibliophilia

430 books — 371 voters

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Best Books on Creative Life

515 books — 628 voters

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

On Writing by Stephen King

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Why I Write by George Orwell

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Best Books on Writing

808 books — 1,344 voters

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

Best Books of 2016

1,822 books — 2,784 voters

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer Ryan

Best Books of 2017

1,732 books — 3,079 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Legend by Marie Lu

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Best Books of the Decade: 2010s

7,686 books — 14,508 voters

The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer

Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child

How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman

The New Best Recipe by Cook's Illustrated

The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook by America's Test Kitchen

1,487 books — 1,175 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

Best Historical Fiction

8,397 books — 27,553 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,804 books — 22,825 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

Best Teen Books About Real Problems

3,096 books — 12,530 voters

One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters

Best Middle Ages Books

1,324 books — 1,936 voters

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.

Best Picture Books

3,417 books — 2,271 voters

100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings

Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

The Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,801 books — 49,899 voters

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

Teen Historical Fiction

1,546 books — 3,308 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Best Books Ever

80,081 books — 298,416 voters

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,208 books — 28,383 voters