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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Starry (23 Lists)



The Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Run of His Life by Jeffrey Toobin
Best True Crime
1,454 books — 2,096 voters
The Shining by Stephen KingRosemary’s Baby by Ira LevinThe Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
Best Horror Novels
2,119 books — 5,505 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Complete Little House on the Prairie Collection by Laura Ingalls WilderSiyah İnci by Anna Sewell
50 Books Every Child Should Read
1,400 books — 1,122 voters
The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Secret Garden / A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Best Children's Books Most People Haven't Heard of...
1,737 books — 859 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,823 books — 3,989 voters
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas HarrisDarkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff LindsayAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
I Like Serial Killers
1,029 books — 1,560 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe White Queen by Philippa GregoryEmpress Orchid by Anchee MinThe Power of One by Bryce CourtenayHild by Nicola Griffith
Best Historical Fiction
7,884 books — 26,251 voters
The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne
Thrillers You Must Read!
5,273 books — 7,698 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnimal Farm by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenGreat Expectations by Charles DickensFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Required Reading in High School
815 books — 1,300 voters
Black Beauty by Anna SewellThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsThe Fox and the Hound by Daniel P. MannixWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsWatership Down by Richard Adams
Best Books About Animals
1,862 books — 1,926 voters

A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce CameronA Dog's Journey by W. Bruce CameronWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Great "Dog" Books
1,346 books — 1,974 voters
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,067 books — 1,738 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Godfather by Mario Puzo
I Love New York City
609 books — 358 voters
Psycho by Robert BlochThe Shining by Stephen KingAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
The Definitive Horror Book List
1,390 books — 1,996 voters

The Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckAll the Names by José SaramagoDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nobel Laureates
674 books — 572 voters
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny LawsonGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
733 books — 1,112 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott FitzgeraldLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
The Great American Novel
672 books — 1,095 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckGreat Expectations by Charles DickensTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,533 books — 123,867 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingThe Passage by Justin Cronin
This Is the End...
1,016 books — 1,608 voters
Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsLet's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Best Humorous Non-Fiction
595 books — 255 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenWild Swans by Jung ChangThe Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Best Books on Asia
1,003 books — 835 voters
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Most emotional books
903 books — 960 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceThe Godfather by Mario PuzoJonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard BachHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Everyone's Read It But Me
782 books — 4,668 voters