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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Tracey (15 Lists)



The Cat's Table by Michael OndaatjeBurial Rites by Hannah KentThis Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann PatchettOn Writing by Stephen KingWalking Home by Simon Armitage
Your Top 5 Reads in 2014
1,603 books — 1,246 voters
Crossing to Safety by Wallace StegnerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Must Read Classics
1,877 books — 4,716 voters

Brooklyn by Colm TóibínNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroCloud Atlas by David MitchellThe Master by Colm TóibínSaturday by Ian McEwan
Non-Winners of the Man Booker
274 books — 245 voters
The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
Best Books of 2012
3,516 books — 9,187 voters

A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed HanifJoe Cinque's Consolation by Helen GarnerTall Man by Chloe Hooper
Best for Book Clubs
15,310 books — 19,559 voters
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
Best Historical Fiction
7,887 books — 26,278 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniBurmese Days by George Orwell
Best South Asian Fiction
752 books — 1,929 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiGilead by Marilynne Robinson
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,832 books — 22,362 voters

Cloudstreet by Tim WintonThe Orchard by Drusilla ModjeskaThe Secret River by Kate GrenvilleThe Slap by Christos TsiolkasTall Man by Chloe Hooper
Australia In Words
289 books — 56 voters
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Hours by Michael CunninghamLast Orders by Graham SwiftThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Books made into really good movies
575 books — 291 voters

Home by Marilynne RobinsonOlive Kitteridge by Elizabeth StroutThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Best Books of 2008
1,644 books — 6,771 voters
Gilead by Marilynne RobinsonHome by Marilynne RobinsonKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerCloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,373 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieLast Orders by Graham SwiftLife of Pi by Yann MartelTrue History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Booker Prize Winners
73 books — 2,016 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,537 books — 123,872 voters

Cloudstreet by Tim WintonThe orchard by Drusilla ModjeskaBurial Rites by Hannah KentRansom by David MaloufThe Secret River by Kate Grenville
Best Modern Australian Literature
564 books — 672 voters