Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/51067866-jay">Jay</a> (29 Lists)

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

Passing by Nella Larsen

The Harlem Renaissance

142 books — 73 voters

Love Marriage by Monica Ali

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris

The No-Show by Beth O'Leary

Best Books of 2022

1,555 books — 1,869 voters

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

The Complete Stories of Truman Capote by Truman Capote

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,128 books — 3,695 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

Romance for the Mildly Cynical

13 books — 3 voters

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali

Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal

2019 Books by Authors of Color

361 books — 394 voters

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Bunny by Mona Awad

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Best Books of 2019

1,440 books — 1,961 voters

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura

Adèle by Leïla Slimani

Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Anticipated 2019 Literary Fiction

223 books — 336 voters

Black Boy by Richard Wright

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Animal Farm by George Orwell

1984 by George Orwell

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,910 books — 124,877 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Female Biographies

1,280 books — 449 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Good Books that Begin with A

998 books — 85 voters

Call Them by Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit

Out of the Woods by Julia Corbett

What If This Were Enough? by Heather Havrilesky

Calypso by David Sedaris

Not That Bad by Roxane Gay

Best Essay Collections

31 books — 13 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Best Dystopian Fiction of All Time

473 books — 1,371 voters

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Best Twentieth Century American Novels

325 books — 232 voters

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hunger by Roxane Gay

The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit

Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang

Daring to Drive by Manal Al-Sharif

Best Books of 2017

1,733 books — 3,079 voters

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Absurdist Fiction

327 books — 298 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

1984 by George Orwell

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

16,066 books — 18,932 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Animal Farm by George Orwell

This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein

The Outsider by Albert Camus

Books that will change your life

212 books — 176 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Animal Farm by George Orwell

UK 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

1,551 books — 557 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Animal Farm by George Orwell

This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Best Books For Freedom Lovers

816 books — 501 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Best Books To Frame Thinking

1,400 books — 1,665 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Persuasion by Jane Austen

19th Century Novels by Female Writers

128 books — 60 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Emma by Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Classic Chick Lit

159 books — 86 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Emma by Jane Austen

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

CLEAN Romance Books

2,942 books — 2,043 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Best Books with Rural Settings

1,155 books — 1,032 voters

Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley

Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden

Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta

Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty

Favourite Aussie YA books

580 books — 963 voters

April Fool's Day by Bryce Courtenay

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

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

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Books That Made You Cry

1,609 books — 3,297 voters

Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta

Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave

Best Modern Australian Literature

573 books — 676 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men

1,196 books — 346 voters

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge

How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nicholson

Interesting and Readable Nonfiction

4,607 books — 3,376 voters