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

2,654 books — 3,199 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

298 books — 227 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

32,552 books — 123,952 voters

James by Percival Everett

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

2025 Tournament of Books Longlist

85 books — 330 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

1,384 books — 1,955 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

426 books — 667 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

425 books — 362 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

514 books — 626 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

802 books — 1,333 voters

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

Best Books of 2016

1,827 books — 2,781 voters

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer Ryan

Best Books of 2017

1,736 books — 3,082 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

7,722 books — 14,372 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

1,463 books — 1,117 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

7,910 books — 26,313 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

9,833 books — 22,373 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

3,020 books — 12,503 voters

One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters

Best Middle Ages Books

1,305 books — 1,781 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

3,175 books — 2,065 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

7,878 books — 49,825 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

1,474 books — 3,227 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

78,309 books — 291,947 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

7,215 books — 28,375 voters