Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/3535470-julia">Julia</a> (39 Lists)

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Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan

What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies

Great Canadian Books of the [20th] Century I (fiction and nonfiction)

168 books — 62 voters

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2014 Book Preview II - Fall and Winter

70 books — 190 voters

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Latin American Fiction

903 books — 1,225 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Best Philosophical Literature

1,224 books — 2,823 voters

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

Pompeii by Robert Harris

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears

Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the past 45 yrs

1,140 books — 1,193 voters

Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet

780 books — 1,839 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Best Indian Fiction Books

937 books — 2,461 voters

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Shun-Ru Chang

Chinese Literature

317 books — 154 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Best Historical Fiction

8,283 books — 27,251 voters

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Best Books About China

757 books — 592 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Best Book Titles

12,354 books — 8,780 voters

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Best for Book Clubs

15,516 books — 20,042 voters

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Night by Elie Wiesel

Essential Non-Fiction Reading Re: Human Rights

628 books — 453 voters

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk

Best Middle East Nonfiction

537 books — 378 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Collapse by Jared Diamond

The Orientalist by Tom Reiss

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2005 (fiction and nonfiction)

100 books — 74 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Best Literary Mysteries

2,707 books — 5,135 voters

Stone's Fall by Iain Pears

The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Best Historical Mystery

2,327 books — 4,992 voters

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge

Looking for Direction

153 books — 20 voters

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Othello by William Shakespeare

Henry V by William Shakespeare

The Best Shakespeare Plays

39 books — 171 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

Best Russian Literature

499 books — 2,306 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman

Citizens by Simon Schama

A History of Russia by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

Best History Books

4,096 books — 4,758 voters

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

The Wars by Timothy Findley

Coming up for Air by George Orwell

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

World War One Literature

226 books — 357 voters

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

Best Children's Books

5,468 books — 7,072 voters

River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

A Man of Parts by David Lodge

The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai

Man Booker Prize Eligible 2011

155 books — 277 voters

A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright

The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf

And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat

Must Read Non-Fiction

5,467 books — 5,186 voters

Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann

The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal

The World That Never Was by Alex Butterworth

Defending the West by Ibn Warraq

Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami

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

14,970 books — 15,561 voters

Pearl of China by Anchee Min

Historical Fiction 2011

117 books — 581 voters

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

UTILITY LIST for quickly adding BOOK SERIES

298 books — 18 voters

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

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

Best Young Adult Books

13,359 books — 80,691 voters

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

Paddington Bear by Michael Bond

Curious George Four Board Book Set by H.A. Rey

When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne

The Gingerbread Man by Catherine McCafferty

Best Books for a Baby Shower!

692 books — 552 voters

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