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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Maggie (37 Lists)



His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Best "Strong Female" Fantasy Novels
4,790 books — 19,203 voters
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
1001+ or- books to read before i die
38 books — 29 voters

All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
Best Southern Literature
1,380 books — 2,604 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Books I want to read in 2012
406 books — 356 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathLolita by Vladimir NabokovDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerLeaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Favorite Books That Were Once Banned
63 books — 23 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyWolf Hall by Hilary MantelRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom StoppardThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Books of Your Lifetime
532 books — 167 voters

Neuromancer by William Gibson
Best of Cyberpunk
387 books — 1,199 voters
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
My Favorite Reads of 2012
31 books — 9 voters

Egyptian Politics by Maye Kassem
Best Books About Egypt
490 books — 575 voters
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Best Novels That Take Place in China
431 books — 1,103 voters

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Art & Artists in Fiction
969 books — 1,132 voters
The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee AndersonThe Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Best Middle East Nonfiction
535 books — 376 voters

Flutter by Erin E. Moulton
Can't Wait Books For 2011
1,240 books — 6,622 voters
Shōgun by James Clavell
Transcultural Fiction
422 books — 210 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
What's the Book You Can't Wait to Read This Summer?
14,460 books — 15,314 voters
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies
2,192 books — 12,264 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Darkest Books of All Time
1,314 books — 1,732 voters
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Best Books Featuring Witches
765 books — 821 voters

Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward
Men I Wish Were Real
1,682 books — 1,285 voters
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean StaffordMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels
99 books — 951 voters

Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseIndian Givers by Jack Weatherford
Best American History Books
2,234 books — 2,721 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeHis Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Highbrow Fantasy Books
423 books — 631 voters

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
988 books — 966 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,825 voters

Thoughts from Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,214 books — 2,170 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Gothic Books of All Time
639 books — 3,598 voters

Little Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
235 books — 401 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Books About Tudor England
635 books — 1,660 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónCritique of Criminal Reason by Michael Gregorio
Best Historical Mystery
2,286 books — 4,793 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelTrue History of the Kelly Gang by Peter CareyOscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Booker Prize Winners
72 books — 2,015 voters


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