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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Liz (9 Lists)



The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradAdventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Boat Books
774 books — 504 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoPerfume by Patrick SüskindParis Spleen by Charles BaudelairePère Goriot by Honoré de BalzacParis, Capital of Modernity by David Harvey
Books About Paris
724 books — 575 voters

The Dark Child by Camara LayeCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonThe Stranger by Albert CamusThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeSo Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,845 books — 1,730 voters
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
Good author bad book.
50 books — 10 voters

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyGods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Authors I Will Never Read Again
146 books — 59 voters
Shutter Island by Dennis LehaneThe Lincoln Lawyer by Michael ConnellyThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithThe Oxford Murders by Guillermo MartínezAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Thrillers You Must Read!
5,283 books — 7,693 voters

The Holy Bible by AnonymousWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyGreat Expectations by Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,700 books — 13,226 voters
Perfume by Patrick SüskindI, Claudius by Robert Graves
Best Historical Fiction
7,920 books — 26,341 voters

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollHis Dark Materials by Philip PullmanThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
What Book Would You Like To Live In?
8,764 books — 8,992 voters