Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1810706-vena-deceased">Vena {Deceased}</a> (29 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Vena {Deceased} (29 Lists)

Raintree County by Ross Lockridge Jr.

The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

The Complete Poems by Hart Crane

Writers who committed suicide

455 books — 285 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

The Starship Book List

2,764 books — 189 voters

The King's General by Daphne du Maurier

Precious Bane by Mary Webb

Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

Best Fiction With Disfigured/Disabled Leads

1,170 books — 1,059 voters

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories by Stephen-Crane

Christy by Catherine Marshall

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Required High School Reading Classics :)

42 books — 9 voters

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Books You Are Tired Of Hearing About

734 books — 1,011 voters

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Straight Man by Richard Russo

Huh? I Thought That Book Would Be Better Than It Was

882 books — 750 voters

Dinner at Antoine's by Frances Parkinson Keyes

Yellow Jack by Josh Russell

A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren

Storyville by Lois Battle

Louisiana Power & Light by John Dufresne

Louisiana Fiction

194 books — 156 voters

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray

Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner

The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Best Environmental Books

1,072 books — 1,202 voters

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Books I Regret Reading

2,300 books — 3,225 voters

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Popular Books that Annoy You

1,032 books — 2,011 voters

Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Best Gothic Books of All Time

585 books — 3,503 voters

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre

754 books — 464 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald

14,385 books — 9,979 voters

The Fruit Palace by Charles Nicholl

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee

By the Ionian Sea by George Gissing

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

Favorite Travel Books

2,021 books — 3,941 voters

The King's General by Daphne du Maurier

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

Best Love Stories

5,173 books — 9,634 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The kid(s) die! (another cautionary list)

243 books — 120 voters

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

Vertigo by W.G. Sebald

Most Confusing Books you ever read?

42 books — 67 voters

The Hanging Tree by Dorothy M. Johnson

The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Breakheart Pass by Alistair MacLean

A Distant Trumpet by Paul Horgan

The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr.

1,377 books — 1,502 voters

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

Best Book to Screen Interpretation

579 books — 479 voters

Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition by Caroline Alexander

The Fur Person by May Sarton

The Cat and the Curmudgeon by Cleveland Amory

Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault

Secrets of the Cat by Barbara Holland

Great Cat Books

1,578 books — 950 voters

Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce

The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK

1,134 books — 10,100 voters

The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Rose by Martin Cruz Smith

Best Crime & Mystery Books

7,314 books — 15,563 voters

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly

The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

The Most Deserving Newbery

116 books — 3,000 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt

Disappointing Books

2,735 books — 4,604 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Books With Unforgettable Characters

9,438 books — 8,418 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley

Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal

466 books — 1,589 voters

Scuffy the Tugboat by Gertrude Crampton

What Book Got You Hooked?

3,847 books — 10,518 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,801 books — 49,784 voters

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

The Worst Books of All Time

8,105 books — 19,873 voters