Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/35240921-amanda">Amanda</a> (29 Lists)

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The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

10 by Ben Lerner

The Green Road by Anne Enright

When the Doves Disappeared by Sofi Oksanen

Acclaimed Fiction of 2015 at the Boston Athenaeum (fiction)

12 books — 1 voter

The Art of the Con by Anthony M. Amore

Dreamhouse by Penny Drue Baird

Therigatha by Charles Hallisey

Listening to Stone by Hayden Herrera

Master Thieves by Stephen Kurkjian

New Books at the Boston Atheneaeum - Autumn 2015

73 books — 6 voters

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Halloween at the Boston Athenaeum

30 books — 4 voters

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Straight Man by Richard Russo

College Novels Display at the Boston Athenaeum

11 books — 1 voter

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane

Defending Jacob by William Landay

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

Books Set in Massachusetts

516 books — 93 voters

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock

Canadian Fiction at the Boston Athenaeum

15 books — 2 voters

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Memoirs at the Boston Athenaeum

34 books — 4 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Famously Controversial Novels at the Boston Athenaeum

10 books — 1 voter

Dune by Frank Herbert

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Before the Golden Age by Isaac Asimov

American Science Fiction by Gary K. Wolfe

2001 by Arthur C. Clarke

Science Fiction at the Boston Athenaeum

28 books — 3 voters

Gift of Death by Edward S. Aarons

A Choice Of Enemies by Ted Allbeury

Deliver Us from Evil by David Baldacci

The Whole Truth by David Baldacci

The Cleaner by Brett Battles

Spy Fiction at the Boston Athenaeum

22 books — 2 voters

What If? by Randall Munroe

The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Acclaimed Non-Fiction of 2014

29 books — 8 voters

Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Min kamp 3 by Karl Ove Knausgård

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

Acclaimed Fiction of 2014

33 books — 5 voters

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

19th Century Classics at the Boston Athenaeum

30 books — 2 voters

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy at the Boston Athenaeum

17 books — 2 voters

Across the Bitter Sea by Eilís Dillon

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane

The Frightened Man by Kenneth M. Cameron

Historical 20th Century Fiction at the Boston Athenaeum

41 books — 5 voters

The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber

My Lady of Cleves by Margaret Campbell Barnes

Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson

Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess

Harvest by Jim Crace

Renaissance Historical Fiction at the Boston Athenaeum

11 books — 2 voters

Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Savage Lands by Clare Clark

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman

American Revolution Historical Fiction at the Boston Athenaeum

13 books — 5 voters

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Works Of Anne Bradstreet In Prose And Verse by Anne Bradstreet

I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

E.E. Cummings by E.E. Cummings

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

Writers from Massachusetts at the Boston Athenaeum

22 books — 1 voter

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu

Books By Authors Under 30 at the Boston Athenaeum

8 books — 3 voters

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

A Time to Kill by John Grisham

Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Literary Reference Titles at the Boston Athenaeum

31 books — 1 voter

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Fear by Gabriel Chevallier

Books in Translation at the Boston Athenaeum

30 books — 2 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

20th Century Classics at the Boston Athenaeum

100 books — 2 voters

Essays by Béla Bartók

Evenings With the Orchestra by Hector Berlioz

The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein

Baroque Music by Claude V. Palisca

Debussy on music by Claude Debussy

Music Non-Fiction at the Boston Athenaeum

26 books — 3 voters

The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indriðason

Voices by Arnaldur Indriðason

DeKok and Murder by Melody by A.C. Baantjer

Scared to Live by Stephen Booth

One Last Breath by Stephen Booth

Police Procedurals at the Boston Athenaeum (fiction)

50 books — 2 voters

The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen

The Bostonians by Henry James

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

Boston-Based Fiction at the Boston Athenaeum

43 books — 4 voters

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

The Hammer and the Anvil by Dwight Jon Zimmerman

The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds

Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis

The Photographer by Emmanuel Guibert

Graphic Novels at the Boston Athenaeum

12 books — 1 voter

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Young Adult Fiction at the Boston Athenaeum

23 books — 3 voters

The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall

The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell

Before the Frost by Henning Mankell

An Event in Autumn by Henning Mankell

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Scandinavian Crime Fiction at the Boston Athenaeum

22 books — 3 voters

Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton

Minerva Cries Murder by Mignon F. Ballard

Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron

Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist by M.C. Beaton

Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam by M.C. Beaton

Cozy Mysteries at the Boston Athenaeum (fiction)

92 books — 29 voters