Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/3280845-lane-willson">Lane Willson</a> (26 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lane Willson (26 Lists)

Darkness Visible by William Styron

Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Books about Mental Illness

100 books — 46 voters

Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry

Naked by David Sedaris

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Humorous Memoirs and Non-Fiction

988 books — 1,531 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

The World According to Garp by John Irving

Books that Make you Laugh

3,516 books — 5,219 voters

The Odyssey by Homer

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List

100 books — 1,709 voters

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch

My Reading Life by Pat Conroy

The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell

The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller

Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading

1,064 books — 603 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Pulitzer Prize Finalists

81 books — 103 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Major Award-Winning Fiction Since 1990

252 books — 568 voters

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

American Lion by Jon Meacham

Truman by David McCullough

John Adams by David McCullough

Pulitzer Winners: Biographies & Autobiographies

121 books — 203 voters

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham

Best American History Books

2,219 books — 2,698 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

My favourite books about books

150 books — 83 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Stories For Book Lovers

8,474 books — 8,718 voters

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

On Writing Well by William Zinsser

Best Books on Writing

802 books — 1,333 voters

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Theological Weird Fiction

498 books — 301 voters

The World According to Garp by John Irving

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Flannery O'Connor Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

National Book Award Winners

241 books — 205 voters

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

The Liberator by Alex Kershaw

Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham

Best Biographies

1,731 books — 3,160 voters

The World According to Garp by John Irving

Best Humorous Books

4,420 books — 8,080 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

American Lion by Jon Meacham

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Your Top 5 Reads in 2012

716 books — 798 voters

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Africa (fiction and nonfiction)

1,831 books — 1,712 voters

Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

The Receptionist by Janet Groth

Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead

The Big Miss by Hank Haney

Best Books of 2012

3,517 books — 9,187 voters

American Lion by Jon Meacham

Eisenhower by Stephen E. Ambrose

Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham

Truman by David McCullough

Decision Points by George W. Bush

Best books on USA president(s) (nonfiction)

211 books — 118 voters

Write It When I'm Gone by Thomas M. DeFrank

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Truman by David McCullough

American Lion by Jon Meacham

Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham

Best Presidential Biographies (nonfiction)

469 books — 527 voters

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Darkness Visible by William Styron

The Habit of Being by Flannery O'Connor

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Books That Made An Impact On My Life

2,564 books — 1,302 voters

Nashville Skyline by Francis Fesmire

Books Set in Tennessee

502 books — 128 voters

Fab by Howard Sounes

No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins

Miles by Miles Davis

The Beatles Anthology by The Beatles

Clapton by Eric Clapton

Best Non Fiction About Music

1,476 books — 1,390 voters

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Great Santini by Pat Conroy

Best Southern Literature

1,380 books — 2,598 voters

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels

99 books — 951 voters