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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jessie (17 Lists)



I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Best Historical Fiction About Ancient Rome
376 books — 647 voters
A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking
Non-fiction - Something for Everyone
4,155 books — 1,550 voters

1984 by George OrwellThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,120 books — 1,735 voters
The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsCosmos by Carl SaganA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,952 books — 3,637 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinJ.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,747 books — 26,990 voters
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. AuelThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoI, Claudius by Robert GravesOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Historical Fiction
8,063 books — 26,730 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownRubicon by Tom HollandThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonOrientalism by Edward W. Said
Best History Books
4,032 books — 4,516 voters
"They Take Our Jobs!" by Aviva ChomskyA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnHegemony or Survival by Noam ChomskyThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinAnti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
954 books — 1,121 voters

Hannibal by Thomas HarrisThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,654 books — 18,679 voters
1984 by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,816 books — 49,853 voters

1984 by George OrwellA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinCosmos by Carl SaganThe Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,835 books — 124,656 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,833 books — 22,425 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XThe Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,601 books — 7,978 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisAnd the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,937 books — 2,222 voters

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Biggest Disappointment
62 books — 95 voters
Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaChicana Lesbians by Carla Trujillo
Chicana/Latina Lesbian Books
87 books — 36 voters

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,507 books — 16,468 voters