A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Diana (19 Lists)



Want by Lynn Steger Strong
New Books I'm Dying To Read
96 books — 27 voters
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Top 100 Mysteries of the 20th Century
100 books — 71 voters

Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
Can't Wait Books of 2012
2,509 books — 15,061 voters
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganOne Day by David NichollsRoom by Emma Donoghue
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 663 voters

Sing You Home by Jodi PicoultKeeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
Best Jodi Picoult Books
29 books — 1,655 voters
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik LarsonThe Paris Wife by Paula McLain
What's the Book You Can't Wait to Read This Summer?
14,957 books — 15,517 voters

No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda JulyA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Collections of Short Stories
2,975 books — 2,094 voters
An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
The "Can't Wait" Book of '09
443 books — 2,029 voters

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave EggersThe Plot Against America by Philip RothBel Canto by Ann PatchettThe Known World by Edward P. JonesOne Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
Book I Should've Liked
258 books — 153 voters
Cutting for Stone by Abraham VergheseThe Help by Kathryn StockettAn Echo in the Bone by Diana GabaldonThe Writing on My Forehead by Nafisa HajiThis is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Best Books of 2009
1,773 books — 6,933 voters

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanMy Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte TaylorStiff by Mary RoachSaturday by Ian McEwanThe Woman Who Can't Forget by Jill Price
Medicine and Literature
2,056 books — 2,297 voters
Storm Front by Jim ButcherThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraEat the Document by Dana SpiottaThe Last Town on Earth by Thomas MullenThe Gates by John Connolly
What To Read Next
21,090 books — 24,761 voters

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro LeafStuart Little by E.B. WhiteNumber the Stars by Lois LowryThe Lorax by Dr. SeussWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Best Kids Books Ever
1,060 books — 959 voters
Night by Elie WieselThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo LeviI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouWhen Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,300 books — 2,626 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerGood in Bed by Jennifer WeinerSomething Borrowed by Emily Giffin
Chick Lit for the Beach
1,385 books — 1,790 voters
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,197 books — 28,383 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonDenying the Holocaust by Deborah E. LipstadtTaking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni WeschlerFull Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-ZinnWhen Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,417 books — 8,206 voters
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
1,538 books — 3,044 voters

Night by Elie WieselTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,937 books — 125,057 voters