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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Fernanda (55 Lists)



Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis
Recommended by Susan Sontag
93 books — 14 voters
Free Women of Spain by Martha A. Ackelsberg
No Pasaran! A Spanish Civil War booklist
91 books — 22 voters

Soldiers of Salamis by Javier CercasNada by Carmen Laforet
Novels Inspired by the Spanish Civil War
87 books — 137 voters
O Peso do Pássaro Morto by Aline Bei
nova literatura brasileira
35 books — 36 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Vintage Novels & Memoirs About World War I
80 books — 54 voters
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichWar's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich
Best Books by Female Writers in Russian
159 books — 66 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 505 voters
Feeling Good by David D. Burns
Anxiety Self-Help
59 books — 30 voters

Bossypants by Tina FeyYes Please by Amy Poehler
Funny Women Memoirs
504 books — 1,666 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Victorian Novels
215 books — 534 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell
World's Greatest Novellas
737 books — 1,476 voters
How Fiction Works by James Wood
Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading
1,102 books — 693 voters

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
History through graphic novels
621 books — 498 voters
Star Wars by Timothy Zahn
Best Star Wars Books
470 books — 1,311 voters

Oedipus the King by Sophocles
Appendix A: The Theocratic Age (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
90 books — 30 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
20 Greatest Academic Books as chosen by Academic Publishers and Booksellers
22 books — 33 voters

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Best German Children Literature
234 books — 204 voters
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Weirdest Books Ever
1,184 books — 1,196 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëLes Misérables by Victor HugoAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,878 books — 7,001 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Best Heroine in a Fantasy Book
1,499 books — 1,804 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,247 books — 2,582 voters
Sailor Moon, Vol. 1 by Naoko Takeuchi
Best Manga All The Time
205 books — 105 voters

We Were There, Vol. 1 by Yuuki Obata
Most Depressing Manga
95 books — 173 voters
Death Note, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi Ohba
Best Manga Series
199 books — 253 voters

Dragon Ball, Vol. 1 by Akira Toriyama
Best Manga of All Time
648 books — 1,005 voters
Hitchcock/Truffaut by François TruffautConversations with Scorsese by Richard SchickelWoody Allen by Robert E. Kapsis
Best Interview Books
271 books — 33 voters

Pictures at a Revolution by Mark HarrisHitchcock/Truffaut by François Truffaut
Books ABOUT Movies
849 books — 280 voters
Vivien by Alexander Walker
Celebrity Biography
950 books — 335 voters

Hitchcock/Truffaut by François TruffautThe Magic Lantern by Ingmar Bergman
Best Books about The History of World Cinema
276 books — 115 voters
Vivien Leigh by Kendra Bean
Classic Film Books
432 books — 112 voters


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