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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Bernadette (72 Lists)



Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
I Picked It Up Because of the Title
7,942 books — 2,088 voters
Slammed by Colleen Hoover
Best YA/New Adult Contemporary Romance
2,231 books — 4,626 voters

Deeply Rooted in Faith & Family by Ginda Ayd Simpson
Memoirs, Narrative Nonfiction and Other (Mostly) True Things
801 books — 453 voters
Ishmael by Daniel QuinnUglies by Scott WesterfeldLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Giver by Lois LowryEnder’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,557 books — 123,973 voters

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Flowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Glad my teacher made me read this book
339 books — 401 voters
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
2,916 books — 2,068 voters

El Marsam Cookbook by Ginda Ayd Simpson
Best Ethnic Cookbooks
317 books — 145 voters
El Marsam Cookbook by Ginda Ayd SimpsonBetter Homes and Gardens New Cook Book by Better Homes and GardensThe Complete Middle East Cookbook by Tess Mallos
Best Cookbooks
1,463 books — 1,117 voters

Deeply Rooted in Faith & Family by Ginda Ayd SimpsonAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Memoirs/Autobiography/Travel
1,413 books — 1,271 voters
Deeply Rooted in Faith & Family by Ginda Ayd Simpson
The Best Spiritual Autobiographies
164 books — 185 voters

Deeply Rooted in Faith & Family by Ginda Ayd Simpson
Independent Memoirs
116 books — 146 voters
Deeply Rooted in Faith & Family by Ginda Ayd Simpson
Memoirs by Women
3,260 books — 3,364 voters

Deeply Rooted in Faith & Family by Ginda Ayd Simpson
Italy
1,013 books — 536 voters
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Historical Lesbian Fiction
261 books — 264 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniSwallows of Kabul by Yasmina KhadraThe Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Afghan-fiction
47 books — 54 voters
Reached by Ally Condie
Can't Wait Books of 2012
2,520 books — 15,072 voters

Reached by Ally CondieSpeaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
Anticipated Books of 2012
542 books — 998 voters
Zaat by Sonallah IbrahimTaxi by Khaled Al KhamissiThe Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
English Books on Modern Egypt
179 books — 52 voters

Best Unappreciated Books
4,391 books — 2,288 voters
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany1/4 جرام by Essam Youssef
Best Middle East Fiction
441 books — 487 voters

The Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriEsperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz RyanEast, West by Salman Rushdie
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,068 books — 1,781 voters
Ishmael by Daniel QuinnThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThree Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Books That Changed My World
3,291 books — 3,257 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyLord of the Flies by William GoldingAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,994 books — 26,646 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best for Book Clubs
15,318 books — 19,607 voters

Uglies by Scott WesterfeldThe Giver by Lois LowryPretties by Scott WesterfeldHoles by Louis SacharEnder’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Best Young Adult Fiction
3,611 books — 6,984 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThree Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonSwallows of Kabul by Yasmina KhadraThe Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Afghanistan in Literature
221 books — 264 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThree Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,833 books — 22,379 voters
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Fantasy Goodreads for 9-12 years
833 books — 609 voters


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