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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Shawnee (10 Lists)



The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Giver by Lois LowryBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,980 books — 26,588 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorTobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
Best Southern Literature
1,379 books — 2,596 voters

The Legend of Mammy Jane by Sibyl Jarvis PischkeScreaming with the Cannibals by Lee MaynardRiver of Earth by James StillIcy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman RubioThe Dollmaker by Harriette Simpson Arnow
Best Books Set in Appalachia
802 books — 845 voters
The Nest by Gregory A. DouglasInfected by Scott SiglerSnuff by Chuck PalahniukHaunted by Chuck PalahniukThe House That Jack Built by Graham Masterton
The Goriest Books Ever
409 books — 629 voters

Old Yeller by Fred GipsonWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsThe Dogs of Babel by Carolyn ParkhurstAll the Numbers by Judy Merrill LarsenBridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Books that Made You Cry!
3,366 books — 7,984 voters
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Dogs of Babel by Carolyn ParkhurstNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,216 books — 28,372 voters

I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies) by Laurie NotaroIf Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma BombeckBitter Is the New Black by Jen LancasterA Dirty Job by Christopher MooreCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Books that Make you Laugh
3,516 books — 5,218 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Jungle by Upton SinclairFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,507 books — 123,764 voters

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth SteinThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Host by Stephenie Meyer
Best Books of 2008
1,644 books — 6,771 voters
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeI Am the Cheese by Robert CormierIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Books Mentioned in Lizzie Skurnick's "Shelf Discovery"
74 books — 49 voters