A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Missi (19 Lists)



The Mourning Handbook by Helen FitzgeraldDeath and Bereavement Across Cultures by Colin Murray Parkes
Thanatopsis: Death, Dying, and Mortality
594 books — 268 voters
Lasher by Anne RiceTaltos by Anne RiceSuddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams
Best New Orleans Books
426 books — 349 voters

Brady's Civil War by Webb B. GarrisonThe Most Glorious Fourth by Duane P. SchultzShenandoah 1862 by Peter CozzensGlory Road by Bruce CattonAbraham Lincoln by James M. McPherson
Best American Civil War Books
1,028 books — 1,066 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,824 books — 22,579 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,881 voters
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
Great Crime and Mysteries
193 books — 135 voters

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Haunted Hospitals
51 books — 78 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckDracula by Bram StokerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Now That's What I Call A Good Read
315 books — 87 voters

Lone Survivor by Marcus LuttrellIn Harm's Way by Doug StantonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankLost Moon by Jim Lovell
Best True Survival Stories
435 books — 559 voters
Call Me Anna by Patty Duke
Biographies/Memoirs with Mental Hospitals and Asylums settings (nonfiction)
104 books — 79 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee WilliamsA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,261 books — 2,647 voters
The Stand by Stephen King
Adult Dystopian Books
150 books — 259 voters

Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerOn the Road by Jack KerouacA Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Ultimate Backpacking Novels
481 books — 1,154 voters
On the Road by Jack KerouacInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Best Location-Based and History-Based Books to Read While Traveling
1,093 books — 653 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerAlive by Piers Paul ReadInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
True Life Adventure
396 books — 275 voters
They Thirst by Robert McCammon
Scariest books of all time
625 books — 735 voters

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Ghost Stories
1,601 books — 2,150 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtSmall Sacrifices by Ann Rule
Best True Crime
1,510 books — 2,148 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerRoots by Alex HaleyCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best Historical Fiction
8,232 books — 27,159 voters