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



The Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadThe Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie MackesyThis Is How It Always Is by Laurie FrankelThe Last Widow by Karin SlaughterSalt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
2020: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2020
6,368 books — 848 voters
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan
Best Books of 2017
1,732 books — 3,080 voters

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
I read the first one and didn't feel compelled to finish the trilogy/series
886 books — 2,053 voters
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Books About Old People
545 books — 194 voters

Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Best Biographies
1,754 books — 3,013 voters
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregorySnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Best Historical Fiction
8,037 books — 26,708 voters

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanLuckiest Girl Alive by Jessica KnollThe Forgotten Room by Karen WhiteMean Streak by Sandra BrownThe Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
2016: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2016
6,038 books — 684 voters
The Help by Kathryn StockettThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Best for Book Clubs
15,477 books — 19,973 voters

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Historical Fiction 2015
429 books — 2,135 voters
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
Series I've Given Up On...
1,023 books — 3,350 voters

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
I'm glad someone made me read this book
11,407 books — 11,053 voters
Mein Kampf by Adolf HitlerBirth Control is Sinful in the Christian Marriages and also R... by Eliyzabeth Yanne Strong-And...How to Be Famous by Heidi Montag
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,640 books — 5,990 voters

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,878 books — 7,000 voters
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottMatilda by Roald Dahl
Favorite books from my childhood
4,515 books — 7,702 voters

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Books that Made You Cry!
3,367 books — 8,002 voters
The Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinNight by Elie WieselThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
15,233 books — 15,906 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinShe’s Come Undone by Wally LambThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,710 books — 13,275 voters
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,138 books — 10,095 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,875 books — 49,842 voters