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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Deodand (56 Lists)



Dune by Frank HerbertOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,434 books — 1,777 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Complete Works by William Shakespeare1984 by George OrwellEmma by Jane Austen
Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan
182 books — 107 voters

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas AdamsThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoFirestarter by Stephen KingCongo by Michael Crichton
Best Books of 1980
394 books — 213 voters
Asterix in Switzerland by René Goscinny
Best Books 1970
309 books — 77 voters

Down to a Sunless Sea by David GrahamAnathem by Neal StephensonFarnham's Freehold by Robert A. HeinleinThe Stand by Stephen KingThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,288 books — 3,467 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankAmelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
Favorite books from my childhood
4,499 books — 7,705 voters

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee WilliamsThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel SparkGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Unrequited Love
366 books — 193 voters
To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. HeinleinThe Black Dahlia by James EllroyLittle, Big by John Crowley
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,255 books — 2,435 voters

Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
Scientists and Philosophers
235 books — 159 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasRebecca by Daphne du MaurierA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingWatchmen by Alan Moore
Best Ending
8,152 books — 6,319 voters

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,264 books — 8,123 voters
Betty Crocker's Cookbook by Betty CrockerArtisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff HertzbergDiners, Drive-ins and Dives by Guy FieriCooking Light Annual Recipes 2009 by Cooking Light
Best Cookbooks
1,463 books — 1,117 voters

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,702 books — 13,225 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Best Love Stories
5,243 books — 9,775 voters

Goodbye to All That by Robert GravesStorm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,215 books — 2,599 voters
Maus I by Art SpiegelmanInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerBorn Standing Up by Steve MartinMargot Fonteyn by Meredith Daneman
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,423 books — 7,392 voters

A Passage to India by E.M. ForsterThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxDaughter of Fortune by Isabel AllendeOutlander by Diana Gabaldon
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,179 books — 1,909 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyCryptonomicon by Neal StephensonThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Thickest Books Ever
890 books — 2,487 voters

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Favorite Book in the Harry Potter Series
26 books — 1,802 voters
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim PotokThe Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving StoneLust for Life by Irving StoneCat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Art & Artists in Fiction
969 books — 1,132 voters

In Watermelon Sugar by Richard BrautiganOut of Africa by Isak DinesenSiddhartha by Hermann HesseSoulless by Gail CarrigerWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Abandoned Books
1,465 books — 1,462 voters
The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,930 books — 3,628 voters

Carrie by Stephen KingWhat Is the What by Dave EggersLullaby by Chuck PalahniukThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Shining by Stephen King
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,287 books — 11,631 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Metafiction
444 books — 582 voters

Little, Big by John CrowleyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëLove You Forever by Robert MunschLolita by Vladimir NabokovStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
15,050 books — 15,770 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Gothic Books of All Time
637 books — 3,596 voters

The Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Books you wish they would teach in high school
118 books — 208 voters
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth KostovaWolf Hall by Hilary MantelLittle Bee by Chris CleaveThe Zookeeper's Wife by Diane AckermanNick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn
You Want to Read in 2010
1,079 books — 1,972 voters

The Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonSnow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Books I wouldn't have discovered without Goodreads
2,680 books — 1,033 voters
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas HarrisGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteBUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara
Best Female Lead Characters
4,895 books — 5,940 voters


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