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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Traveller (20 Lists)



1984 by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,332 books — 5,900 voters
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo NerudaThe Complete Collected Poems by Maya AngelouTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo NerudaThe Collected Poems, 1957-1987 by Octavio PazBasho by Matsuo Bashō
Favorite Poets of Color
600 books — 200 voters

The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Path to the Spiders' Nests by Italo Calvino
Favourite WW2 Books Set in Italy
98 books — 114 voters
Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieNovel Without a Name by Dương Thu Hương
Nobel Prize Contenders
79 books — 70 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonObsessive Genius by Barbara GoldsmithGorillas in the Mist by Dian FosseyAda, the Enchantress of Numbers by Ada LovelaceMadame Curie by Ève Curie
Female Scientists
174 books — 109 voters
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna AkhmatovaWomen Writers of Traditional China by Kang-i Sun ChangThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuThe Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon by Sei Shōnagon
Women in Translation
932 books — 307 voters

The Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Lost Colony by Eoin ColferGertrude McFuzz and The Big Brag by Dr. SeussMagic Study by Maria V. SnyderNew Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Books that Sound So Much More Interesting If One Removes the Last Letter of the Title
1,192 books — 250 voters
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuThe Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon by Sei Shōnagon
Literature by Japanese Women
165 books — 163 voters

The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganA Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H. Abrams
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,331 books — 8,174 voters
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia WoolfWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodOrlando by Virginia WoolfMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Great Women Authors
1,212 books — 339 voters

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna AkhmatovaThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon by Sei ShōnagonThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuPoems of Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova
Women Around the World
1,179 books — 438 voters
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García MárquezThe Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García MárquezOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezNo One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel García MárquezLeaf Storm by Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
20 books — 64 voters

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Best Urban Fantasy SERIES
648 books — 3,753 voters
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John GrayFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook by Emily Ansara BainesAtlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
MOST BORING BOOK EVER!
928 books — 469 voters

Stardust by Neil GaimanThe Godfather by Mario PuzoJaws by Peter BenchleyThe Bourne Identity by Robert LudlumHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,138 books — 10,095 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Republic by PlatoRelativity by Albert EinsteinDeclaration of Independence, Constitution of the United State... by Founding FathersThe Principia by Isaac Newton
The Most Influential Books
1,497 books — 5,309 voters

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,855 books — 9,218 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerParadise Lost by John MiltonPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,710 books — 13,277 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
Highbrow Fantasy Books
425 books — 633 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
Best Fantasy Books
1,712 books — 2,094 voters