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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Libby King (38 Lists)



Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie KinsellaBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerGood in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
Favorite Chick-Lit
2,412 books — 4,625 voters
Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsSharp Objects by Gillian FlynnBig Little Lies by Liane MoriartyRoom by Emma Donoghue
Female Psychological Thrillers/Suspense Written by Women
1,480 books — 3,549 voters

The Searcher by Tana French
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2020 Book Preview (September - December)
67 books — 167 voters
Saga, Book One by Brian K. Vaughan
Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4.5 and above and With At Least 100 Ratings
1,943 books — 2,741 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Best Feminist Fiction
1,523 books — 2,687 voters
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
A Year in the Life
242 books — 368 voters

Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittStiff by Mary RoachNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,260 books — 8,104 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichSuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Sociology Books
561 books — 419 voters

Good in Bed by Jennifer WeinerThe Fat Girl's Guide to Life by Wendy Shanker
Best Books with Plus Sized Characters or Themes
176 books — 114 voters
FAT!SO? by Marilyn WannFat Chicks Rule! by Lara FraterWake Up, I'm Fat! by Camryn Manheim
DIET is a 4 letter word.
57 books — 52 voters

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie KinsellaForever... by Judy BlumeDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca WellsSarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Best chicklit
778 books — 1,060 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachDeath's Acre by William M. BassDead Men Do Tell Tales by William R. MaplesThe Bone Lady by Mary H. Manhein
Forensics: If It Doesn't Walk, We Bring Out the Chalk
148 books — 224 voters

Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia HolmanRunning with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Eccentric Mothers
100 books — 53 voters
The Midwife's Tale by Sam ThomasThe White Princess by Philippa GregoryThe Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
Historical Fiction 2013
413 books — 2,140 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Best historical fiction novels
1,233 books — 1,260 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. AuelAlias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,811 books — 3,926 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Giver by Lois LowryOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
This Is the End...
1,014 books — 1,607 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Hot Zone by Richard PrestonNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Plague by Albert Camus
Medicine and Literature
1,972 books — 2,147 voters

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana FranklinThe Serpent's Tale by Ariana FranklinGrave Goods by Ariana FranklinFingersmith by Sarah WatersA Murderous Procession by Ariana Franklin
Best Historical Mystery
2,277 books — 4,739 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussWicked Plants by Amy Stewart
You Read a Book about What?
4,124 books — 2,318 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachBonk by Mary RoachSpook by Mary RoachThe Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,864 books — 2,247 voters
Little Women by Louisa May AlcottMatilda by Roald DahlA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Favorite books from my childhood
4,498 books — 7,692 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Notebook by Nicholas SparksThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Secret by Rhonda Byrne
Everyone's Read It But Me
782 books — 4,659 voters
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
Funniest Books You Have Ever Read
143 books — 71 voters

Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
731 books — 1,133 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,579 books — 18,687 voters

Twilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen CraneTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Worst Books of All Time
8,119 books — 19,891 voters
The Giver by Lois LowryFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,982 books — 26,597 voters


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