Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/30019-allison">Allison</a> (41 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Allison (41 Lists)

Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Flow by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Steal Like an Artist reading list!

14 books — 7 voters

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling

I Don't Care About Your Band by Julie Klausner

I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley

Books by Comics

195 books — 219 voters

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner

Best Memoirs/Autobiography/Travel

1,303 books — 910 voters

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

The Winter of Our Disconnect by Susan Maushart

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

A Year in the Life

198 books — 318 voters

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare

August by Tracy Letts

Doubt, a Parable by John Patrick Shanley

Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

Best American Plays

249 books — 366 voters

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Old School by Tobias Wolff

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

106 books — 151 voters

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Zone One by Colson Whitehead

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Deferred Gratification: 2011's Most Eagerly Awaited New Books

126 books — 378 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

One Day by David Nicholls

Books to Big Screen

218 books — 56 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

1984 by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,733 books — 25,959 voters

Noises Off by Michael Frayn

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Plays Within Plays, Novels, and Other Works

41 books — 34 voters

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Naked by David Sedaris

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

Books That Made Me Laugh Out Loud

2,054 books — 2,341 voters

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Best Historical Fiction

7,326 books — 25,531 voters

One Day by David Nicholls

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith

Life by Keith Richards

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 (fiction and nonfiction)

100 books — 664 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,187 books — 11,267 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,189 books — 28,379 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

1984 by George Orwell

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,815 books — 49,781 voters

Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

Best Graham Greene novels

25 books — 205 voters

Open by Andre Agassi

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Lit by Mary Karr

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2009 (fiction and nonfiction)

100 books — 118 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

Favorite Travel Books

2,017 books — 3,939 voters

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Most Difficult Novels

588 books — 2,044 voters

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Wasted by Marya Hornbacher

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography

5,793 books — 6,330 voters

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert

Must Read Non-Fiction

5,237 books — 4,384 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

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

Best Fantasy Books I Have Read

104 books — 28 voters

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Books I Have No Intention of Reading

1,637 books — 5,996 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Size Doesn't Matter - The Long and Large Classics of Literature

304 books — 399 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

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

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

31,404 books — 119,668 voters

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Naked by David Sedaris

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Books that Make you Laugh

3,489 books — 4,998 voters

The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston

722 books — 608 voters

Old School by Tobias Wolff

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Ivy League & Private School Preoccupations

133 books — 196 voters

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Naked by David Sedaris

The Liars' Club by Mary Karr

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs

696 books — 1,049 voters

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