A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Will Byrnes (52 Lists)



Lolita by Vladimir NabokovNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Penguin Modern Classics
405 books — 490 voters
The Enchanted by Rene DenfeldThe Undead Pool by Kim Harrison
2014 Reads You Don't Want To Miss
956 books — 1,243 voters

The Son by Philipp Meyer
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 817 voters
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Shandian Spawn
169 books — 49 voters

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienHis Dark Materials by Philip PullmanTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
Best Literary Trilogies
267 books — 163 voters
Stiff by Mary Roach
Modern Medical Science (nonfiction)
270 books — 246 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachBanana by Dan KoeppelEels by James Prosek
You Read a Book about What?
4,166 books — 2,522 voters
Moby-Duck by Donovan HohnEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Titlemania I: Puns in Titles
445 books — 106 voters

The Plague of Doves by Louise ErdrichThe Painted Drum by Louise ErdrichThe Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore CooperLittle Big Man by Thomas Berger
Native American Fiction
846 books — 646 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAtonement by Ian McEwanNetherland by Joseph O'Neill
Non-Winners of the Man Booker
274 books — 245 voters

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,902 books — 1,799 voters
The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul KrugmanWhat's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas FrankThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinThe Working Poor by David K. ShiplerThe Family by Jeff Sharlet
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
966 books — 1,134 voters

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxThe Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
The Masks We Hide Behind
207 books — 106 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
The Desert
489 books — 91 voters

On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson
Books About Old People
549 books — 198 voters
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinGriftopia by Matt TaibbiThe Big Short by Michael LewisEnd This Depression Now! by Paul KrugmanBroke, USA by Gary Rivlin
Corporatocracy: Good, Bad, Truth, Fiction
261 books — 88 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Best Multicultural General Fiction
593 books — 386 voters
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Popular Archaeology and Paleoanthropology
481 books — 181 voters

Caribou Island by David VannLittle Princes by Conor Grennan
Top Five-Star Reads of 2011
415 books — 671 voters
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell BanksThis Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 35 voters

Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare by John Toohey
Mutiny on the Bounty
22 books — 15 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeBrave New World by Aldous Huxley1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Goodreads 100—Fiction
100 books — 73 voters

Skippy Dies by Paul MurrayBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughA Separate Peace by John KnowlesHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Boarding School Books
75 books — 52 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Great Books with BLACK Covers
2,096 books — 756 voters

Fire Season by Philip ConnorsThe Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman
Books Set in New Mexico
631 books — 170 voters
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Quiet American by Graham GreeneThe 39 Steps by John BuchanSmiley's People by John le Carré
Espionage
1,041 books — 1,092 voters

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
books with sad endings
113 books — 103 voters
The Polar Express by Chris Van AllsburgHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
the first book that made you cry
10 books — 11 voters


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