Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lawrence (14 Lists)



Desert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyCollapse by Jared DiamondCadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
Best Environmental Books
1,075 books — 1,203 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Abandoned Books
1,464 books — 1,464 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Books To Read Before I Die
145 books — 109 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal
462 books — 1,589 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonCollapse by Jared Diamond
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,239 books — 8,069 voters
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,133 books — 10,100 voters

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,831 books — 2,220 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
This Is the End...
995 books — 1,592 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Most Difficult Novels
589 books — 2,044 voters
1984 by George OrwellWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinWar with the Newts by Karel Čapek
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,768 books — 26,025 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,371 voters
Truman by David McCullough
Best American History Books
2,136 books — 2,503 voters

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler WarnerWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsThe BFG by Roald DahlRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,852 books — 10,552 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling1984 by George OrwellA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,786 voters