Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1855321-jan-c">Jan C</a> (201 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jan C (201 Lists)

The Metropolitan Opera Murders by Helen Traubel

The "Canary" Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine

Library of Congress Crime Classics

17 books — 3 voters

The French Broad by Wilma Dykeman

46 Days by Jennifer Pharr Davis

Becoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis

Called Again by Jennifer Pharr Davis

Asheville, NC Area Authors

20 books — 3 voters

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Best Books About America

77 books — 28 voters

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

The Judas Window by Carter Dickson

Locked Room Mysteries

160 books — 150 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)

561 books — 544 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Books that Change You

238 books — 69 voters

Chicago by Nelson Algren

The Third Coast by Thomas Dyja

Murder At Wrigley Field by Troy Soos

Death in the Haymarket by James R. Green

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Chicago in history and fiction (fiction and nonfiction)

255 books — 82 voters

The Promise by Robert Crais

Gathering Prey by John Sandford

The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths

A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear

A Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George

Most Anticipated Mysteries of 2015

200 books — 493 voters

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Cover Her Face by P.D. James

UK 100 Crime Books and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime: The Readers Vote

825 books — 214 voters

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Poet by Michael Connelly

Angels Flight by Michael Connelly

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Favourite Crime & Thrillers

2,189 books — 1,654 voters

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

The Great American Novel

670 books — 1,089 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Animal Farm by George Orwell

100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

15,145 books — 17,354 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Great Coming-Of-Age Books

861 books — 633 voters

Ava by Ava Gardner

Tracy and Hepburn by Garson Kanin

My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin

Haywire by Brooke Hayward

Hotel California by Barney Hoskyns

Celebrity Biography

944 books — 329 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Required Reading in High School

813 books — 1,285 voters

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Black Boy by Richard Wright

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

#BlackLivesMatter Reading List

625 books — 292 voters

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash

Profiles in Courage by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg

Growing Up by Russell Baker

Pulitzer Winners: Biographies & Autobiographies

121 books — 203 voters

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers

Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler

At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie

The Water Room by Christopher Fowler

Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers

Best London Mysteries

207 books — 112 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Hardscrabble Life

408 books — 118 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

'Tis by Frank McCourt

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

Tales of New York City

1,506 books — 1,215 voters

Up the Line to Death by Brian Gardner

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

Best Poetry Books

2,980 books — 2,422 voters

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

A Kaleidoscope of Colors

2,283 books — 199 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Centennial by James A. Michener

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

The 800+ page Gorillaz

459 books — 518 voters

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Histories of the Everyday

372 books — 336 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

favorite non-fiction

2,780 books — 1,132 voters

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson

Failure to Appear by J.A. Jance

The Eagle Catcher by Margaret Coel

CODEBREAKERS by F.H. Hinsley

What we've read so far in...2014

9,381 books — 2,036 voters

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Best Murder Mysteries Of All-Time

994 books — 722 voters

Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Favorite Travel Books

2,017 books — 3,939 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Books With Unforgettable Characters

9,439 books — 8,385 voters

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumb

The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb

Best Books Set in Appalachia

793 books — 837 voters

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