Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/14417643-harper">Harper</a> (133 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Harper (133 Lists)

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Book Riot's 100 Must Read Debut Novels

100 books — 14 voters

I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together by Maurice Vellekoop

The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

Madness by Antonia Hylton

What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

Best Books of 2024

886 books — 950 voters

Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas

Historical Romance Set in India

43 books — 17 voters

The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen

Dissolution by C.J. Sansom

Best Mysteries of the 21st Century

188 books — 245 voters

The House Is on Fire by Rachel Beanland

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni

Ana María and the Fox by Liana De la Rosa

The Museum of Failures by Thrity Umrigar

Best Books of 2023

1,246 books — 1,871 voters

The Afghanistan Papers by Craig Whitlock

The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

Hooked by Sutton Foster

Ida B. the Queen by Michelle Duster

The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths

Best Books of 2021

1,440 books — 1,627 voters

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

Trust by Hernan Diaz

Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu

Best Books of 2022

1,553 books — 1,862 voters

Walking the Bowl by Chris Lockhart

The Palace Papers by Tina Brown

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad

The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022

100 books — 41 voters

The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez by Aaron Bobrow-Strain

Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2019

401 books — 91 voters

White Rage by Carol Anderson

The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

Sister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#BlackLivesMatter Reading List

631 books — 293 voters

When Death Comes Stealing by Valerie Wilson Wesley

If I Should Die by Grace F. Edwards

Blanche Cleans Up by Barbara Neely

The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan

Dead Time by Eleanor Taylor Bland

Mystery & Detective Novels by Women of Color

141 books — 80 voters

The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Rory's Book Club

174 books — 93 voters

The Mirror of Beauty by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

The Sun that Rose from the Earth by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

Task 9 #ReadHarder 2019

216 books — 23 voters

Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

American Dream by Jason DeParle

The Price of Thirst by Karen Piper

When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson

Books on Poverty and Inequality

243 books — 163 voters

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Directorate S by Steve Coll

War on Peace by Ronan Farrow

The World As It Is by Ben Rhodes

160 books — 58 voters

An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez

Working by Robert A. Caro

Maid by Stephanie Land

Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight

Fresh Air 2019 (Jan-June)

53 books — 14 voters

Red Mandarin Dress by Qiu Xiaolong

CHINESE crime noir, detective mysteries and thrillers set in CHINA

44 books — 23 voters

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Murder in Samarkand by Craig Murray

China in Ten Words by Yu Hua

New York Times 52 Books for 52 Places

52 books — 3 voters

Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Eternal Life by Dara Horn

NYT 100 Notable Books of 2018

100 books — 82 voters

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

In the Last Analysis by Amanda Cross

Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell

The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

Mystery Novels about Academia and Academics

190 books — 17 voters

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson

Something Wonderful by Todd S. Purdum

Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight

Heartland by Sarah Smarsh

The Tangled Tree by David Quammen

Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2018

436 books — 194 voters

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Family Life by Akhil Sharma

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon

100 books — 22 voters

City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin

Fiction featuring the Romanov Family

91 books — 123 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Homicide by David Simon

202 books — 46 voters

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

80 books — 119 voters

White Rage by Carol Anderson

All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister

In the Country We Love by Diane Guerrero

Shrill by Lindy West

The Arab of the Future 3 by Riad Sattouf

Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2016

146 books — 17 voters

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal

American Fire by Monica Hesse

Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2017

228 books — 50 voters

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 (fiction and nonfiction)

100 books — 663 voters

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Spillover by David Quammen

Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 (fiction and nonfiction)

100 books — 505 voters

Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert

The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips

The Unraveling by Emma Sky

$2.00 a Day by Kathryn J. Edin

Katrina by Gary Rivlin

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015 (fiction and nonfiction)

100 books — 205 voters

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