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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Norma Winter (14 Lists)



The Stonemason by Cormac McCarthyPorgy and Bess Fantasy for Two Pianos by George Gershwin
African American Plays
44 books — 35 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
784 books — 1,401 voters

A Woman in a Man's World by Norma L. WinterPlease Don't Eat the Daisies by Jean KerrSpeaking Truth to Power by Anita Hill
Memoirs by Women
3,390 books — 3,620 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleAs I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,394 books — 2,611 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
989 books — 967 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Best Historical Fiction
8,038 books — 26,711 voters

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,998 books — 10,921 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeNight by Elie WieselThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Books that Made You Cry!
3,367 books — 8,002 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakAtonement by Ian McEwanNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyA Woman in a Man's World by Norma L. Winter
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,272 books — 28,374 voters
Light in August by William FaulknerThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,877 books — 49,844 voters

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankSophie’s Choice by William StyronAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,229 books — 3,952 voters
Atonement by Ian McEwanOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Ending
8,144 books — 6,344 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Thickest Books Ever
892 books — 2,488 voters
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Running like Clockwork
246 books — 31 voters