Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Missy (16 Lists)



The Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesState of Wonder by Ann PatchettWe Are Water by Wally LambHow the Light Gets In by Louise PennyThe Gravity of Birds by Tracy Guzeman
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,689 books — 14,188 voters
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,259 books — 2,433 voters

The World According to Garp by John IrvingAll the President’s Men by Carl BernsteinThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonRabbit Redux by John UpdikeThe Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,954 books — 1,880 voters
The Outsiders by S.E. HintonOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,360 books — 1,779 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteOn the Road by Jack KerouacInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Crucible by Arthur Miller
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,181 books — 1,510 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerThe Plague by Albert CamusA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
819 books — 1,143 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldWinnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
765 books — 1,130 voters
Peter Pan by J.M. BarrieEthan Frome by Edith WhartonDemian by Hermann HesseTen Days that Shook the World by John Reed
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
530 books — 775 voters

The Jungle by Upton SinclairSister Carrie by Theodore DreiserThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisThe War Prayer by Mark Twain
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
467 books — 854 voters
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverFight Club by Chuck PalahniukSnow Falling on Cedars by David GutersonThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienWhite Oleander by Janet Fitch
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,680 voters

The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise ErdrichThe Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise ErdrichThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Lacuna by Barbara KingsolverBel Canto by Ann Patchett
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,370 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Must Read Classics
1,862 books — 4,655 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,306 books — 4,531 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,624 books — 120,437 voters

The Hour I First Believed by Wally LambThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
What To Read Next
20,355 books — 24,231 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Complete Works by William Shakespeare
Best Books Ever
76,444 books — 284,353 voters