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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Janine (15 Lists)



A Rainha Ginga e de Como os Africanos Inventaram o Mundo by José Eduardo AgualusaReturn to the Source by Amílcar CabralUnity and Struggle by Amílcar CabralThe Book of Night Women by Marlon JamesChronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,102 books — 1,015 voters
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2017
225 books — 259 voters

The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Best Audiobooks Ever
1,980 books — 2,841 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezCapitães da areia by Jorge Amado
Latin American Fiction
904 books — 1,228 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Best Multicultural General Fiction
592 books — 380 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
African Fiction
605 books — 434 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonDona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge AmadoMemories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,362 books — 4,704 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books
100 books — 312 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Fiction of Milan Kundera
12 books — 121 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann MartelTuesdays with Morrie by Mitch AlbomThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Books that Changed the Way You View Life
10,613 books — 6,153 voters

Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
Worst Ending
269 books — 562 voters
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
India: Fiction
321 books — 332 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Best Historical Fiction
8,038 books — 26,712 voters