Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/3390446-missy">Missy</a> (16 Lists)

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

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

We Are Water by Wally Lamb

How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny

The Gravity of Birds by Tracy Guzeman

Best Books of the Decade: 2010s

7,677 books — 14,468 voters

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,228 books — 2,445 voters

The World According to Garp by John Irving

All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Rabbit Redux by John Updike

The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey

Best Books of the Decade: 1970s

1,923 books — 1,897 voters

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré

Best Books of the Decade: 1960s

1,401 books — 1,785 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Best Books of the Decade: 1950s

1,163 books — 1,524 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

The Plague by Albert Camus

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Best Books of the Decade: 1940s

815 books — 1,158 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Best Books of the Decade: 1920s

759 books — 1,134 voters

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Demian by Hermann Hesse

Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed

Best Books of the Decade: 1910s

523 books — 780 voters

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

The War Prayer by Mark Twain

Best Books of the Decade: 1900s

480 books — 865 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,133 books — 3,695 voters

The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,209 books — 28,383 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Must Read Classics

1,893 books — 4,755 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Favorite Magical Realism Novels

1,369 books — 4,694 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,875 books — 124,800 voters

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

What To Read Next

21,076 books — 24,467 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

Best Books Ever

79,097 books — 294,948 voters