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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Amy (27 Lists)



Bedtime Bonnet by Nancy Redd
2021 Mock Caldecott List
117 books — 89 voters
Geek Love by Katherine DunnLiving Dead Girl by Elizabeth ScottOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonHiroshima by John Hersey
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,276 books — 11,728 voters

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Best Pride and Prejudice Sequels/Variations/Adaptations
506 books — 983 voters
Stiff by Mary Roach
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,922 books — 2,289 voters

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
Favorite Funny Story Time Picture Books
361 books — 309 voters
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Best Historical Fiction Set in UK and Ireland
1,432 books — 1,661 voters

Doomsday Book by Connie WillisSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Best Time Travel Fiction
2,221 books — 5,517 voters
World War Z by Max Brooks
Zombies!
1,716 books — 4,385 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,115 books — 27,009 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Prettiest Girl On Cover
758 books — 817 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingDinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope OsborneA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleRamona the Pest by Beverly ClearyThe Cave of Time by Edward Packard
The Must-Have Series for Children Ages 6 to 12
911 books — 1,355 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Best Female Heroine Books (or books centered around girls)
368 books — 209 voters

The Underneath by Kathi AppeltThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall
2009 Newbery Contenders
80 books — 610 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelPossession by A.S. ByattLondon by Edward Rutherfurd
Best Historical Fiction
8,296 books — 27,350 voters

The Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerSex and the City by Candace BushnellBridget Jones by Helen FieldingMASH by Richard Hooker
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,122 books — 10,100 voters
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba BrayAmong the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,671 books — 70,240 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanI Am the Cheese by Robert CormierHouse of Stairs by William SleatorEva by Peter Dickinson
ALA 100 Best Books for Teens
113 books — 128 voters
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Restaurant Reads
216 books — 101 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyUlysses by James JoyceAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
12,273 books — 11,615 voters
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Favorite Chick-Lit
2,411 books — 4,625 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Devil's Arithmetic by Jane YolenBriar Rose by Jane Yolen
Well-Written Holocaust Books
947 books — 3,147 voters
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingA Northern Light by Jennifer DonnellyWatership Down by Richard AdamsHatchet by Gary PaulsenThe Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Couldn't Put The Book Down
17,647 books — 17,942 voters

Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
Books You Were Shocked to Enjoy!
31 books — 23 voters
Along for the Ride by Sarah DessenForest Born by Shannon HaleThe Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodSent by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The "Can't Wait" Book of '09
443 books — 2,029 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëEmma by Jane AustenThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,744 books — 6,936 voters
Atonement by Ian McEwanThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,735 books — 13,306 voters

Mere Christianity by C.S. LewisCaptivating by John EldredgeFor Women Only by Shaunti FeldhahnRedeeming Love by Francine RiversSecond Touch by Bodie Thoene
Favorite Christian Books
2,085 books — 1,980 voters