Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/4871172-betsy">Betsy</a> (27 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Betsy (27 Lists)

Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell

Best Canadian Literature

2,340 books — 1,150 voters

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century

1,122 books — 9,068 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Favorite books from my childhood

4,499 books — 7,703 voters

The Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao

Dispatches by Michael Herr

If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien

Best Literature About the Vietnam War

342 books — 651 voters

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Sold by Patricia McCormick

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Best Young Adult Books

13,209 books — 80,448 voters

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer

I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Wasted by Marya Hornbacher

Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs

733 books — 1,112 voters

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Ou... by Philip Gourevitch

Night by Elie Wiesel

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,261 books — 8,116 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Best Beach Reads 2013

2,207 books — 4,189 voters

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Best Books of 2011

2,666 books — 6,694 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Psychological Themes

207 books — 93 voters

The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes by Barbara J. Scot

Little Princes by Conor Grennan

Arresting God In Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay

117 books — 78 voters

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

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

autism: fiction AND non-fiction

254 books — 236 voters

Agnes's Jacket by Gail A. Hornstein

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman

The Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. Yalom

The Geography of Thought by Richard E. Nisbett

Books Every Psychology and/or Counseling Doctoral Student Should Read

1,373 books — 1,495 voters

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

Best Haruki Murakami Books

29 books — 849 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The Holy Bible by Anonymous

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,701 books — 13,223 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Best War Novels

1,708 books — 1,456 voters

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Deferred Gratification: 2011's Most Eagerly Awaited New Books

126 books — 375 voters

When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

Antigone by Sophocles

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Best Feminist Books

2,807 books — 3,857 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Best LGBTQIA literature

1,835 books — 2,207 voters

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

YA Dystopia Novels

2,003 books — 11,492 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,215 books — 28,372 voters

Coming Out Straight by Richard Cohen

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Night by Elie Wiesel

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,287 books — 11,628 voters

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Life With Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

Life at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

Best Humorous Books

4,420 books — 8,086 voters

First Kill Your Family by Peter Eichstaedt

Slave by Damien Lewis

War Child by Emmanuel Jal

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him

80 books — 56 voters

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

Night Falls Fast by Kay Redfield Jamison

The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks

My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Memoirs of Madness

300 books — 387 voters

Bare Feet, Iron Will by James G. Zumwalt

The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam

The Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields by Dith Pran

Cambodia and Vietnam

219 books — 163 voters

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Best South Asian Fiction

752 books — 1,926 voters