Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/169381-melanie">Melanie</a> (25 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Melanie (25 Lists)

My Funny Valentine by J.A. Culican

2023 book coming soon (pt1)

174 books — 339 voters

Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman

Celebrate Horror 2021

63 books — 18 voters

Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary

What Book Got You Hooked?

4,021 books — 11,018 voters

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

Best Postcolonial Literature (fiction and nonfiction)

186 books — 142 voters

Lamb by Christopher Moore

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

Best Humorous Books

4,505 books — 8,333 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,878 books — 7,009 voters

They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky by Benson Deng

Speak Rwanda by Julian R. Pierce

Malaria Dreams by Stuart Stevens

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

Africa (fiction and nonfiction)

1,913 books — 1,810 voters

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Best Books of 2009

1,772 books — 6,932 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Best Southern Literature

1,419 books — 2,696 voters

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Disappointing Books

2,775 books — 4,672 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce

Fangland by John Marks

Now That's REALLY Freakin' Weird...

711 books — 552 voters

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

1,247 books — 2,834 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Beach by Alex Garland

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The Book Was Better Than the Movie

1,658 books — 18,680 voters

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga

The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Golden City by John Twelve Hawks

The "Can't Wait" Book of '09

443 books — 2,029 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,826 books — 22,754 voters

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Bram Stoker Award Winners

61 books — 113 voters

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff

The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

Best Releases of 2008

230 books — 614 voters

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Read Them Twice...At Least

14,459 books — 12,399 voters

Malaria Dreams by Stuart Stevens

Men of Salt by Michael Benanav

Looking for Lovedu by Ann Jones

Night Train to Turkistan by Stuart Stevens

Nine Hills to Nambonkaha by Sarah Erdman

Have Passport Will Travel

718 books — 643 voters

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Booker Prize Winners

63 books — 2,010 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels

100 books — 951 voters

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Best Historical Fiction

8,307 books — 27,372 voters

The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Best Books of 2008

1,649 books — 6,773 voters

Yol by Cormac McCarthy

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Armageddon's Children by Terry Brooks

Into the Forest by Jean Hegland

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

4,125 books — 27,026 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,903 books — 26,250 voters