Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1804122-janine">Janine</a> (26 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Janine (26 Lists)

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins

The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,204 books — 28,374 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Best Southern Literature

1,394 books — 2,611 voters

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Best Books Ever

78,961 books — 294,214 voters

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Funniest Novels of All Time

1,446 books — 2,411 voters

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Unto a Good Land by Vilhelm Moberg

Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton

Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Recommended Historical Fiction

3,905 books — 4,167 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About

15,239 books — 15,892 voters

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross

Best Historical Fiction

8,046 books — 26,729 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,778 books — 25,843 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,817 books — 49,850 voters

JONATHAN LIVINGSTON LE GOELAND by Richard Bach

Happiness Is a Choice by Frank B. Minirth

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

Love Story by Erich Segal

The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell

Worst Books I Ever Read

335 books — 267 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

Best Author Ever

483 books — 298 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Most Depressing Book of All Time

1,229 books — 3,942 voters

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)

1,246 books — 2,581 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Stories For Book Lovers

8,508 books — 9,002 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

I Should Probably Read This Sometime...

12,226 books — 11,487 voters

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,847 books — 124,607 voters

The Stand by Stephen King

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Books You Can't Live Without

1,653 books — 1,191 voters

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins

Favorite Magical Realism Novels

1,364 books — 4,668 voters

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

Books That Should Be Made Into Movies

32,627 books — 69,966 voters

Godless by Ann Coulter

How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann Coulter

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter

Books I Have No Intention of Reading

1,641 books — 5,990 voters

Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell

The World According to Garp by John Irving

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Best Humorous Books

4,449 books — 8,405 voters

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Best Time Travel Fiction

2,184 books — 5,467 voters

Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Brain Droppings by George Carlin

Books that Make you Laugh

3,547 books — 5,232 voters

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

Dissolution by C.J. Sansom

A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King

Best Crime & Mystery Books

7,482 books — 16,405 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Best Comedic Science Ficttion Books

636 books — 1,219 voters

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell

Guilty by Ann Coulter

Deliver Us from Evil by Sean Hannity

High Crimes and Misdemeanors by Ann Coulter

The Worst Books of All Time

8,115 books — 19,898 voters