Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/50484-peg">Peg</a> (29 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Peg (29 Lists)

James by Percival Everett

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

Challenger by Adam Higginbotham

Cold Crematorium by József Debreczeni

The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024

100 books — 18 voters

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González

Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022

100 books — 41 voters

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett

Eat a Peach by David Chang

Memoir Published in Year: 2020

298 books — 86 voters

The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

WWII Historic Fiction

1,471 books — 1,552 voters

A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio

The Other Americans by Laila Lalami

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Normal People by Sally Rooney

2020 Tournament of Books Long List

62 books — 55 voters

Donna Has Left the Building by Susan Jane Gilman

Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 (eligible for write-in only)

1,118 books — 1,360 voters

Educated by Tara Westover

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

Dopesick by Beth Macy

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

NYT 100 Notable Books of 2018

100 books — 82 voters

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

The Post-Trump Big Questions Canon

526 books — 276 voters

The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf

Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer

Beyond Heidi: Books Set In Switzerland

258 books — 87 voters

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Paper Towns by John Green

Looking for Alaska by John Green

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

2015: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2015

6,238 books — 1,529 voters

The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra

$2.00 a Day by Kathryn J. Edin

Do No Harm by Henry Marsh

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Spinster by Kate Bolick

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015 (fiction and nonfiction)

100 books — 205 voters

War in Val d'Orcia by Iris Origo

Saving Italy by Robert M. Edsel

Partisan Diary by Ada Gobetti

Favourite WW2 Books Set in Italy

98 books — 114 voters

The Working Poor by David K. Shipler

Fire in the Ashes by Jonathan Kozol

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

No Shame in My Game by Katherine S. Newman

Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol

Books on Poverty and Inequality

220 books — 144 voters

Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

2,295 books — 4,673 voters

The Taste of War by Lizzie Collingham

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 (fiction and nonfiction)

100 books — 505 voters

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King

The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

990 books — 507 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom

514 books — 245 voters

Truman by David McCullough

I Am the Clay by Chaim Potok

Best Books of 1992

507 books — 200 voters

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Best Books Ever

77,176 books — 287,641 voters

Swiss Watching by Diccon Bewes

The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Before You Visit Switzerland

36 books — 22 voters

A Street in Marrakech by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami

Secret Son by Laila Lalami

Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Before You Visit Morocco

18 books — 13 voters

A Street in Marrakech by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Secret Son by Laila Lalami

Hope And Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami

Books Set in Morocco

139 books — 106 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,076 books — 121,880 voters

Stasiland by Anna Funder

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

316 books — 187 voters

The Last Lion by William Manchester

The Last Lion by William Manchester

The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

In Europe by Geert Mak

Best History Books

3,800 books — 3,821 voters

The Last Lion by William Manchester

The Last Lion by William Manchester

The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

Night by Elie Wiesel

Truman by David McCullough

History as Literature

734 books — 538 voters

The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Night by Elie Wiesel

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,889 books — 49,792 voters

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,187 books — 28,366 voters

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,873 books — 6,995 voters