A Decade of Hit Books

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



The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane SmileyThe Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian AndersenThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonPippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,229 books — 1,254 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,320 books — 2,449 voters

The Godfather by Mario PuzoThe Hours by Michael CunninghamMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultForrest Gump by Winston Groom
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,122 books — 10,103 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Books That Exceeded Your Expectations
15,762 books — 18,092 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,729 books — 13,307 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
12,250 books — 11,535 voters

Godless by Ann CoulterThe Secret by Rhonda ByrneHow to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann CoulterSlander by Ann CoulterIf Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,641 books — 5,998 voters
God Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensLetting Go of God by Julia Sweeney
Notable Atheist Books
599 books — 1,001 voters

The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-ReverteAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,505 books — 16,704 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupérySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,941 books — 125,072 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë1984 by George OrwellThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasLord of the Flies by William Golding
Must Read Classics
1,891 books — 4,758 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Best Books Ever
79,421 books — 296,077 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,197 books — 28,383 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,882 voters