Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/3305776-joe">Joe</a> (29 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Joe (29 Lists)

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Around the World One Book from Each Country

1,063 books — 961 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

Around the World in 100 Books

1,315 books — 706 voters

All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot

A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham

Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

Madam Secretary by Madeleine K. Albright

Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography

5,766 books — 6,304 voters

Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham

Ike's Bluff by Evan Thomas

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian

What We've Read So Far in 2018

6,456 books — 678 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Top 10 for the Reading Challengers

5,855 books — 4,170 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Best Woman-Authored Books

8,111 books — 5,154 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Recommended by Reading Challengers

6,016 books — 4,516 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,790 books — 49,758 voters

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,705 books — 6,864 voters

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

Thrillers You Must Read!

4,649 books — 6,469 voters

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

Must Read Classics

1,853 books — 4,624 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

15,139 books — 17,320 voters

The Little House Collection by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard

Father and I Were Ranchers by Ralph Moody

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

What Book Got You Hooked?

3,825 books — 10,355 voters

The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith Jr.

Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

The Shack by William Paul Young

Popular Books that Annoy You

1,033 books — 2,014 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Dune by Frank Herbert

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Best Philosophical Literature

1,148 books — 2,734 voters

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

742 books — 398 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Father and I Were Ranchers by Ralph Moody

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

1,369 books — 1,494 voters

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

I Only Watched the Movie!

1,223 books — 6,123 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Books for and About Activists

326 books — 306 voters

The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

The Black Ice by Michael Connelly

The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke

Seasons and Weather in Titles

1,505 books — 150 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,201 books — 28,367 voters

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,847 books — 21,850 voters

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

White Fang by Jack London

Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard

Outlaw Red by Jim Kjelgaard

Irish Red by Jim Kjelgaard

655 books — 669 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

What's the Book You Can't Wait to Read This Summer?

13,841 books — 14,520 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Book Was Better Than the Movie

1,560 books — 18,693 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer

Favorite Novels Which Won the Hugo Award

82 books — 1,611 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Best Books Ever

75,519 books — 280,561 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tolkien On Fairy-stories by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

31,367 books — 119,262 voters

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Runaway Jury by John Grisham

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK

1,132 books — 10,104 voters