Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/33249234-mrs-danvers">Mrs. Danvers</a> (27 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Mrs. Danvers (27 Lists)

The Names of the Dead by Stewart O'Nan

Night Dogs by Kent Anderson

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Dispatches by Michael Herr

Chickenhawk by Robert Mason

Best Literature About the Vietnam War

331 books — 638 voters

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

Edinburgh Book Festival 2013 - First Book Award

42 books — 10 voters

Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn

The Baillie Gifford Prize

71 books — 2 voters

Executed on a Technicality by David R. Dow

Inside the Criminal Justice System

159 books — 49 voters

With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix

Dear Life by Rachel Clarke

Who Dies? by Stephen Levine

Dying Well by Ira Byock

Hannah's Gift by Maria Housden

Non-Fiction Books About Death and Death Culture

174 books — 48 voters

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

The ZORA Canon: The 100 greatest books ever written by African American women

100 books — 206 voters

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

These Women by Ivy Pochoda

Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore

Novels Narrated by a Succession of Women

6 books — 4 voters

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,719 books — 6,884 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Best Woman-Authored Books

8,374 books — 5,322 voters

There There by Tommy Orange

Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock

Hunger by Roxane Gay

A Queer and Pleasant Danger by Kate Bornstein

The Iceberg by Marion Coutts

What WOMEN Born in the 1960s Have Read So Far in 2019

878 books — 80 voters

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

The Worst Books of All Time

8,096 books — 19,874 voters

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Women Historians

235 books — 30 voters

With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix

Dying Well by Ira Byock

Who Dies? by Stephen Levine

The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs

The Iceberg by Marion Coutts

Death Positivity: Non Fiction

63 books — 23 voters

Redeployment by Phil Klay

On Immunity by Eula Biss

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Best Books of 2014 - The Critics' Picks

60 books — 16 voters

Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Best Crime & Mystery Books

7,352 books — 15,918 voters

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan

The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

Stranger than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk

Best/Favorite Books of Essays

554 books — 248 voters

Who Dies? by Stephen Levine

Dying Well by Ira Byock

The Tao of Dying by Douglas C. Smith

Swimming in a Sea of Death by David Rieff

The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead by David Shields

Thanatopsis: Death, Dying, and Mortality

585 books — 264 voters

Hannah's Gift by Maria Housden

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Swimming in a Sea of Death by David Rieff

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Girls by Frederick Busch

Best Books About Grief

356 books — 288 voters

The End Of The Wasp Season by Denise Mina

The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh

281 books — 147 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,873 books — 6,995 voters

Stoner by John Williams

Shogun, Tai-Pan, Gai-jin by James Clavell

The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall

Literary Historical Fiction

1,145 books — 1,090 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Ultimate List of Audio Books

323 books — 155 voters

American Fuji by Sara Backer

Fiction Books With Chronically Ill Main Characters- Not Cancer

115 books — 82 voters

Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Engdahl

Best Feminist Young Adult Books

1,320 books — 1,341 voters

Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Likeness by Tana French

Best Literary Mysteries

2,596 books — 4,667 voters

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

My Own Country by Abraham Verghese

Dying Well by Ira Byock

Overdiagnosed by H. Gilbert Welch

Better by Atul Gawande

Best Books for Medical Students

407 books — 580 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Best Books Ever

77,094 books — 286,841 voters