Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/2775814-amanda">Amanda</a> (27 Lists)

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

Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer

London by Edward Rutherfurd

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

British History from 1066

517 books — 130 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Most Depressing Book of All Time

1,232 books — 3,912 voters

Just Kids by Patti Smith

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Memoirs by Women

3,032 books — 3,038 voters

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever by Richard Scarry

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Best Picture Books

3,087 books — 1,989 voters

Just Kids by Patti Smith

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Alive by Piers Paul Read

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Must Read Non-Fiction

5,266 books — 4,460 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Best Books Ever

76,479 books — 284,530 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

31,653 books — 120,512 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Stories For Book Lovers

8,342 books — 8,388 voters

Perfume by Patrick Süskind

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

8,031 books — 6,086 voters

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt

Der Seidenfächer by Lisa See

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Art & Artists in Fiction

945 books — 1,107 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,899 books — 49,786 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

1984 by George Orwell

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,760 books — 25,997 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud

Most Interesting Magic System

2,650 books — 8,769 voters

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century

3,060 books — 9,905 voters

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Best of Margaret Atwood

101 books — 251 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Favorite books from my childhood

4,420 books — 7,429 voters

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,207 books — 25,759 voters

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Best Books about Elves or Faeries

814 books — 1,055 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Capital by Karl Marx

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Best European Literature

807 books — 305 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Favorite Magical Realism Novels

1,306 books — 4,535 voters

The Sweet Smell of Christmas by Patricia M. Scarry

The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Bear's First Christmas by Robert Kinerk

Favorite Christmas Books

1,517 books — 1,564 voters

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch

Phoebe and the Hot Water Bottles by Terry Furchgott

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

Best Children's Books

5,310 books — 6,709 voters

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Twilight Collection by Stephenie Meyer

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Best Supernatural Fiction

983 books — 474 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Evelina by Frances Burney

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

What to read when you've finished Jane Austen

519 books — 676 voters

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland

Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour

White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories by Lauren Groff

Best Book Cover 2009

333 books — 2,841 voters

The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

Best Historical Fiction

7,433 books — 25,614 voters

Feuchtgebiete by Charlotte Roche

World Without End by Ken Follett

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

The Worst Books of All Time

8,096 books — 19,877 voters