Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Thecritic (19 Lists)



Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgDaisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe Alice Network by Kate Quinn
Reese Witherspoon's Book Club x Hello Sunshine
111 books — 433 voters
Freedom by Jonathan FranzenThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Road by Cormac McCarthyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Oprah's Book Club Picks
124 books — 2,201 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Plague by Albert CamusSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Nobel Laureates
660 books — 568 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Stranger by Albert CamusDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe Plague by Albert Camus
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
380 books — 282 voters

The Help by Kathryn StockettWater for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best for Book Clubs
14,939 books — 18,807 voters
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
National Book Award Winners
241 books — 205 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
99 books — 271 voters
Disgrace by J.M. CoetzeeWolf Hall by Hilary MantelBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Booker Prize Winners
62 books — 1,991 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,607 books — 13,153 voters
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldLes Misérables by Victor HugoGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Books that Made You Cry!
3,357 books — 7,962 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettWorld Without End by Ken FollettBring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Best Historical Fiction
7,444 books — 25,640 voters
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanNight by Elie WieselThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsPeople of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
What To Read Next
20,577 books — 24,422 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTwilight by Stephenie MeyerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHoles by Louis Sachar
Best Young Adult Books
13,135 books — 80,210 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsTwilight by Stephenie MeyerHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingCatching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Books I Became So Obsessed With I Stopped Everything Else in My Life to Finish.
12,449 books — 10,161 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyUlysses by James JoyceLolita by Vladimir NabokovLord of the Flies by William GoldingA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,729 books — 10,404 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,846 books — 121,003 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingThe Help by Kathryn StockettWater for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,372 voters
Franny and Zooey by J.D. SalingerA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,789 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Best Books Ever
76,742 books — 285,494 voters