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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sally (36 Lists)



The Color Purple by Alice WalkerI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverPossession by A.S. ByattThe Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
784 books — 1,401 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerRabbit, Run by John UpdikeLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books I wish I had never read
1,300 books — 1,367 voters

The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch
Historical Fiction In Translation
315 books — 25 voters
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
European History
788 books — 160 voters

London by Peter Ackroyd
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,865 books — 2,248 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Forsyte Saga by John GalsworthyOliver Twist by Charles DickensJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,875 books — 6,998 voters

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddKinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2014 Book Preview
94 books — 402 voters
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
Best Nature Books
1,161 books — 835 voters

The Orchid Thief by Susan OrleanThe Shining by Stephen King
Books Made Into Movies That Were Awful
54 books — 31 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
15,040 books — 15,764 voters

Dissolution by C.J. SansomThe River Why by David James Duncan
Best Lesser-Known Books
1,716 books — 1,111 voters
Arguing with Idiots by Glenn BeckGodless by Ann CoulterComing Out Straight by Richard CohenGoing Rogue by Sarah PalinHow to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann Coulter
Dealbreakers: If You Like This Book, We Won't Get Along
2,037 books — 5,315 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Latin American Fiction
893 books — 1,198 voters
London by Peter AckroydLondon Under by Peter AckroydLondon by Edward RutherfurdThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
London Calling
1,236 books — 647 voters

All Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books with Rural Settings
1,151 books — 1,032 voters
Sick Puppy by Carl HiaasenA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Books that Make you Laugh
3,516 books — 5,207 voters

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithA Taste for Death by P.D. James
Bloomsbury 100 Must Read Crime Novels
104 books — 129 voters
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
What's the Book You Can't Wait to Read This Summer?
14,446 books — 15,297 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Male Character
3,174 books — 3,041 voters
The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,261 books — 8,115 voters

One for the Money by Janet EvanovichThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Favorite Chick-Lit
2,413 books — 4,626 voters
The Well-Tended Perennial Garden by Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Gardening Books
369 books — 156 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Best Ending
8,152 books — 6,319 voters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Literary Mysteries
2,654 books — 4,914 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezGreat Expectations by Charles DickensWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best Literary Fiction
1,595 books — 1,572 voters
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Worst Ending
269 books — 562 voters

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Best Feminist Fiction
1,523 books — 2,687 voters
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferGilead by Marilynne RobinsonMedicus by Ruth Downie
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,372 voters

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
What To Read Next
20,918 books — 24,942 voters
Beloved by Toni MorrisonA Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Entertainment Weekly New Classics
104 books — 257 voters


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