A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Nastia (42 Lists)



The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson
The "Can't Wait" Books of 2016
1,248 books — 4,486 voters
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel FaberThe Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2015
143 books — 357 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodBlindness by José SaramagoMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 584 voters
Sophie’s Choice by William StyronLes Misérables by Victor HugoDead Souls by Nikolai GogolCancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Darkest Books of All Time
1,312 books — 1,682 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Edible Woman by Margaret AtwoodThe Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
Best Canadian Literature
2,360 books — 1,170 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyPan Wołodyjowski by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Best Sweeping Epics about Places
87 books — 77 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownAngels & Demons by Dan BrownThe Notebook by Nicholas SparksLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books I Regret Reading
2,313 books — 3,221 voters
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. TolkienHopscotch by Julio Cortázar
Flavorwire's 50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers
50 books — 105 voters

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. TolkienOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraLes Misérables by Victor HugoDracula by Bram Stoker
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,731 books — 13,309 voters
How to Think Straight About Psychology by Keith E. Stanovich
Books Every Psychology and/or Counseling Doctoral Student Should Read
1,417 books — 1,596 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOn Writing by Stephen King
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,414 books — 8,208 voters
Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieBlindness by José SaramagoThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years by Chingiz AitmatovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Magical Realism
460 books — 687 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieBlindness by José Saramago
Best Magic Realism
170 books — 331 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,273 books — 11,709 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Best Tortured Heroes in Fiction
786 books — 798 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieGirl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,032 books — 900 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best Indian Fiction Books
939 books — 2,485 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Non-American books that every American should read
696 books — 497 voters

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Books I want to want to read, but can't.
45 books — 57 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerNew Moon by Stephenie MeyerBreaking Dawn by Stephenie MeyerEclipse by Stephenie MeyerThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The absolutely worst books you can think of
885 books — 530 voters

Twilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Everyone's Read It But Me
783 books — 4,715 voters
Blindness by José Saramago
White as the Driven Snow
1,768 books — 257 voters

The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Books that Make you Laugh
3,570 books — 5,142 voters
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Books With the Worst Grammatical Mistakes
86 books — 16 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieDaughter of Fortune by Isabel AllendeKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,382 books — 4,698 voters
Rats Saw God by Rob ThomasThe Silver Pigs by Lindsey DavisThe Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert RankinA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Dance of the Voodoo Handbag by Robert Rankin
There Ought to be a Band
2,425 books — 1,101 voters

Character You Most Want to Sleep With
4,224 books — 5,469 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëEmma by Jane AustenGreat Expectations by Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Best British and Irish Literature
1,185 books — 1,120 voters

The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Foreign Lands
2,381 books — 2,255 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyQuo Vadis by Henryk SienkiewiczSolaris by Stanisław LemWard No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,095 books — 630 voters


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