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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Kerry (16 Lists)



The Future of Peace by Scott A. Hunt
Super Underrated Books (Fewer than 50 Ratings)
1,270 books — 170 voters
Congo Cables by Madeleine G. KalbThe Political Economy of Third World Intervention by David N. Gibbs
Ridiculously Underrated Books (20 Ratings or fewer)
2,037 books — 214 voters

Solo by Rana DasguptaThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroFugitive Pieces by Anne MichaelsThe Flying Troutmans by Miriam ToewsCold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Queen's Library: Best of the Commonwealth
747 books — 236 voters
Matilda by Roald DahlMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,255 books — 2,435 voters

The Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonThe Reader by Bernhard SchlinkSophie’s World by Jostein GaarderBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
12,183 books — 11,057 voters
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. JeromeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradA Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
Row Your Boat
122 books — 29 voters

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
What To Read Next
20,924 books — 24,961 voters
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset MaughamThe Law and the Lady by Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Best British and Irish Literature
1,174 books — 1,116 voters

Solo by Rana DasguptaHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,832 books — 22,370 voters
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 to 10,000 ratings)
1,957 books — 268 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Worst Books of All Time
8,120 books — 19,895 voters
Chief of Station, Congo by Larry DevlinLiving In, Living Out by Elizabeth Clark-LewisMiss Smithers by Susan JubyAlice MacLeod, Realist at Last by Susan Juby
REALLY Underrated Books (Fewer than 1,000 Ratings)
3,194 books — 804 voters

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam ToewsThe Flying Troutmans by Miriam ToewsA Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil CourtemancheMercy Among the Children by David Adams RichardsNot Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
Canadian Fiction
1,042 books — 605 voters
Matilda by Roald DahlThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathAll the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,825 voters