Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/2830101-laurie">Laurie</a> (46 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Laurie (46 Lists)

Life by Keith Richards

Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher

God, No! by Penn Jillette

My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business by Dick Van Dyke

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Celebrity Biographies

122 books — 41 voters

By Myself by Lauren Bacall

Me by Katharine Hepburn

Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford

movie biographies

209 books — 40 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Little House Collection by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Best Books with Rural Settings

1,156 books — 1,034 voters

My Korean Deli by Ben Ryder Howe

My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

When Skateboards Will Be Free by Said Sayrafiezadeh

Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants by Jill Soloway

The Music of Chance by Paul Auster

I Picked It Up Because of the Title

7,940 books — 2,087 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,129 books — 3,698 voters

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

What Book Got You Hooked?

4,017 books — 10,989 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

1984 by George Orwell

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Books on Loneliness

518 books — 499 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

1984 by George Orwell

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Absurdity of War

124 books — 52 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography

6,685 books — 8,283 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Great Debut Novels

1,609 books — 1,513 voters

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

A Tiger in the Kitchen by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Food-Related Non-Fiction

1,384 books — 1,749 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Favorite books from my childhood

4,523 books — 7,731 voters

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving

Best Books of 2009

1,773 books — 6,933 voters

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry

An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin

The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry

Room by Emma Donoghue

A Book My Father Gave Me

264 books — 222 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Must Read Non-Fiction

5,466 books — 5,185 voters

Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan

Books You Wish More People Knew About

17,472 books — 10,327 voters

Swift as Desire by Laura Esquivel

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Most Overrated Author

106 books — 127 voters

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

Best Books of 2008

1,647 books — 6,775 voters

Slam by Nick Hornby

Best Unappreciated Books

4,377 books — 2,306 voters

Bossypants by Tina Fey

When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead by Jerry Weintraub

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

Life by Keith Richards

The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry

Best Show Business Memoirs or Biographies

460 books — 409 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary

Books for eight-year-old children

1,020 books — 674 voters

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Roots by Alex Haley

The World According to Garp by John Irving

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

Best Books of the Decade: 1970s

1,921 books — 1,900 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,197 books — 28,383 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Dune by Frank Herbert

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,837 books — 26,142 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

Best Humorous Books

4,488 books — 8,335 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Books Worth Reading Again

227 books — 60 voters

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Popular Books that Annoy You

1,012 books — 2,008 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Fictional Mental Hospital Novels

273 books — 781 voters

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

The Book Was Better Than the Movie

1,654 books — 18,676 voters

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

How to Be Good by Nick Hornby

Boom! by Mark Haddon

Books That Should Be Made Into Movies

32,649 books — 70,181 voters

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