Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/284485-kara">Kara</a> (26 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Kara (26 Lists)

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

The Mars House by Natasha Pulley

The Book of Love by Kelly Link

Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

Hugo 2025 Eligible Novels

132 books — 136 voters

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

Hugo 2024 Eligible Novels

97 books — 91 voters

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Popsugar 2022 #9 - A Book about a "Found Family"

279 books — 304 voters

The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

Escape from Yokai Land by Charles Stross

Spear by Nicola Griffith

Hugo 2023 Eligible Novellas

37 books — 64 voters

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

Gallant by V.E. Schwab

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Hugo 2023 Eligible Novels

126 books — 271 voters

Inferno by Catherine Cho

How To Break Up With Fast Fashion by Lauren Bravo

Lift as You Climb by Viv Groskop

How To Get Over A Boy by Chidera Eggerue

The Home Stretch by Sally Howard

Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2020s

685 books — 117 voters

This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell

American Daughter by Stephanie Thornton Plymale

The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres

Things I Learned from Falling by Claire Nelson

The Home Stretch by Sally Howard

Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2020

700 books — 147 voters

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Best of 21st Century Non-fiction

1,196 books — 953 voters

The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang

2019 Books by Authors of Color

345 books — 377 voters

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Non-Caucasian Protagonists in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Paranormal Romance

2,516 books — 2,758 voters

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only

1,838 books — 3,601 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Timeless Classics for Reading Challengers

238 books — 139 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Top 10 for the Reading Challengers

6,028 books — 4,297 voters

Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Recommended by Reading Challengers

6,157 books — 4,662 voters

The Oathbound by Mercedes Lackey

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Unmistakably Strong Female Characters!!

430 books — 337 voters

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,874 books — 6,997 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

Seasonal Reading Challenge Recommended Books

6,421 books — 4,758 voters

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Best of Neil Gaiman

115 books — 507 voters

Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer

The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum

The Secret Life of Pronouns by James W. Pennebaker

Stiff by Mary Roach

Bonk by Mary Roach

You Read a Book about What?

4,041 books — 2,109 voters

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,456 books — 24,725 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

1984 by George Orwell

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,765 books — 26,019 voters

Magician by Raymond E. Feist

Sabriel by Garth Nix

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,213 books — 25,808 voters

How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann Coulter

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter

Godless by Ann Coulter

The Game by Neil Strauss

Left Behind by Tim LaHaye

Dealbreakers: If You Like This Book, We Won't Get Along

2,037 books — 5,322 voters

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler

Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan

The Worst Books of All Time

8,096 books — 19,876 voters

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender

The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Best Magical Realism

68 books — 66 voters

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

Best Books Ever

76,581 books — 284,836 voters