Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/2743564-barbara">Barbara</a> (164 Lists)

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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Booker Prize Winners

62 books — 2,006 voters

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick

If You Like Mad Men . . .

63 books — 89 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

87 books — 25 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

1984 by George Orwell

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"

1,021 books — 608 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Seasonal Reading Challenge Recommended Books

6,583 books — 5,072 voters

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George

Antigone by Jean Anouilh

Awesome Women of the Ancient World

476 books — 976 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Books that Make you Laugh

3,565 books — 5,136 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Best Depressing Books

429 books — 429 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Books I Became So Obsessed With I Stopped Everything Else in My Life to Finish.

12,919 books — 10,683 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Books That Need To Be Read At Least Once

136 books — 48 voters

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America by Cristina Page

The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn

Best Books of 2006

996 books — 752 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Younger Woman/Older Man

676 books — 689 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Non-American books that every American should read

696 books — 497 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Books That Changed My World

3,297 books — 3,477 voters

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier

The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

Art & Artists in Fiction

1,014 books — 1,212 voters

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford

Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie

Shōgun by James Clavell

Best Books turned into a "Made for TV Movie"

211 books — 61 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

The Twilight Collection by Stephenie Meyer

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Books not to read

319 books — 180 voters

How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer

Ear and Brain by Diana Deutsch

Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Radiolab Suggested Readings

182 books — 244 voters

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

Required Reading Graphic Novels

1,242 books — 2,024 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Best Feminist Books

2,961 books — 4,301 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Forced to read in school, but hated

320 books — 561 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Alice in Wonderland by Jane Carruth

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Books You Will Keep Forever

808 books — 234 voters

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Beowulf by Seamus Heaney

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

769 books — 110 voters

Lion in Winter by James Goldman

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Amadeus by Peter Shaffer

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

Best Historical / Biographical Plays and Musicals

62 books — 28 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Must you go? by Antonia Fraser

Best Books of 2010

1,578 books — 2,475 voters

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Race Matters by Cornel West

Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class

2,223 books — 1,659 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

Silas Marner by George Eliot

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Longest Sentences

72 books — 59 voters

The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman

Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

Katherine by Anya Seton

The Reckoning by Sharon Kay Penman

Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman

Historical Fiction: The House of Plantagenet

223 books — 495 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

My Favorite Books

2,169 books — 580 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Shining Through by Susan Isaacs

Best Vacation Books

243 books — 170 voters

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