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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Hannah (21 Lists)



The Tiger's Wife by Téa ObrehtSwamplandia! by Karen Russell
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,722 books — 14,372 voters
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskeyCaps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Best Children's Books
5,376 books — 6,977 voters

Darkfever by Karen Marie MoningTouch the Dark by Karen ChanceRosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuireSkinwalker by Faith HunterUnholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane
The Best Urban Fantasy
4,298 books — 12,881 voters
Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
Picture Books of the 2000s
176 books — 21 voters

Winter Lullaby by Dianne White
Picture Books of the 2020s
123 books — 21 voters
Neuromancer by William GibsonSpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Best Books on Artificial Intelligence
485 books — 713 voters

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderRamona the Pest by Beverly ClearyPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler WarnerCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Must-Have Series for Children Ages 6 to 12
907 books — 1,323 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,833 books — 22,373 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyMiddlemarch by George EliotVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayThe Mill on the Floss by George EliotAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,752 books — 6,906 voters
Your Inner Fish by Neil ShubinThe Extended Phenotype by Richard DawkinsDarwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. DennettThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Best Books on Evolution...
280 books — 219 voters

The Difference Engine by William Gibson
Best Steampunk Books
1,293 books — 4,126 voters
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Everyone's Read It But Me
782 books — 4,675 voters

Swamplandia! by Karen RussellTiassa by Steven BrustThe Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith
Can't Wait Books For 2011
1,240 books — 6,622 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Best Young Adult Books
13,215 books — 80,469 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckBeloved by Toni Morrison
What To Read Next
20,924 books — 24,969 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Neuromancer by William GibsonGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,825 voters

Abiku by Debo KotunThe Squatter and the Don by Maria Amparo;Sanchez Ruiz D...The Princess Who Always Ran Away by Maryke Reesink
The obscure: Best books most haven't read (or even heard of)
537 books — 361 voters
Milk by Anne MendelsonThe Code Book by Simon SinghA History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,873 books — 2,254 voters

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,703 books — 13,226 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsSpook Country by William Gibson
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,375 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerBeloved by Toni MorrisonGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Best Books Ever
78,309 books — 291,943 voters