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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
3,286 books — 11,624 voters

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Best Pride and Prejudice Sequels/Variations/Adaptations
507 books — 981 voters
Stiff by Mary Roach
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,864 books — 2,247 voters

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
Favorite Funny Story Time Picture Books
336 books — 291 voters
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Best Historical Fiction Set in UK and Ireland
1,406 books — 1,682 voters

Doomsday Book by Connie WillisSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Best Time Travel Fiction
2,155 books — 5,433 voters
World War Z by Max Brooks
Zombies!
1,704 books — 4,355 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
3,981 books — 26,596 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
906 books — 1,322 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
7,864 books — 26,191 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
1,134 books — 10,102 voters
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba BrayAmong the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,521 books — 69,847 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
215 books — 100 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...
12,157 books — 11,000 voters
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Favorite Chick-Lit
2,412 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
915 books — 2,960 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
17,452 books — 17,664 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
1,749 books — 6,905 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
2,699 books — 13,219 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
1,966 books — 1,594 voters