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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lorna (21 Lists)



Love Medicine by Louise ErdrichGod Is Red by Vine Deloria Jr.Black Elk Speaks by Black Elk
Native American Authors
330 books — 151 voters
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison AllenThe Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison AllenThe Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison AllenCold Mountain by Charles FrazierEllen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
North Carolina Setting and/or Author
480 books — 199 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2017: What the Over-35s Are Reading
2,678 books — 202 voters
The Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Last Child by John Hart
2019: What the Over-50s Are Reading
821 books — 71 voters

The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Best Medieval Romance Page Turner
169 books — 283 voters
Mere Christianity by C.S. LewisTill We Have Faces by C.S. LewisThe Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
The Christian Intellect
1,302 books — 904 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,348 books — 4,669 voters
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtThe Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Gardens: Fact or Fiction set in a Garden Books
299 books — 153 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Stories For Book Lovers
8,473 books — 8,730 voters
Cold Mountain by Charles FrazierProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverGap Creek by Robert MorganChristy by Catherine MarshallEllen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Best Books Set in Appalachia
802 books — 845 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderWhere the Sidewalk Ends by Shel SilversteinLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Read Them Twice...At Least
14,343 books — 11,927 voters
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
THE BEST of "The Worst Books of all Time"
31 books — 7 voters

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEllen Foster by Kaye GibbonsThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Books that Made You Cry!
3,367 books — 7,991 voters
The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
I'm glad someone made me read this book
11,273 books — 10,948 voters

French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano
Books About Paris
724 books — 575 voters
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Tales of Adventure
516 books — 477 voters

Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
Very Favorite Books
663 books — 469 voters
Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
Best Ever Contemporary Romance Books
4,858 books — 8,504 voters

Up a Road Slowly by Irene HuntCaddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie BrinkJohnny Tremain by Esther ForbesSounder by William H. ArmstrongKing of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
The Most Deserving Newbery
132 books — 3,028 voters
How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
Best Cookbooks
1,463 books — 1,117 voters

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Favorite Christian Books
1,971 books — 1,616 voters