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



Desert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyCollapse by Jared DiamondCadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
Best Environmental Books
1,105 books — 1,267 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Abandoned Books
1,463 books — 1,461 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
464 books — 1,589 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonCollapse by Jared Diamond
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,332 books — 8,174 voters
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,138 books — 10,095 voters

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,882 books — 2,262 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
This Is the End...
1,016 books — 1,606 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Most Difficult Novels
600 books — 2,065 voters
1984 by George OrwellWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinWar with the Newts by Karel Čapek
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,038 books — 26,776 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
7,272 books — 28,374 voters
Truman by David McCullough
Best American History Books
2,261 books — 3,077 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?
3,998 books — 10,921 voters
Harry Potter and the Philosopher'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
7,875 books — 49,842 voters