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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Stephanie (6 Lists)



A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersBeloved by Toni MorrisonCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Best Southern Gothic Literature
349 books — 516 voters
The Red Tent by Anita DiamantWoman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
Best Feminist Fiction
1,545 books — 2,767 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Best Novels Set in 20th-century Britain
400 books — 214 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFingersmith by Sarah WatersNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroWhat Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] by Zoë HellerAtonement by Ian McEwan
Non-Winners of the Man Booker
274 books — 245 voters

Possession by A.S. Byatt
Best Historical Fiction
8,032 books — 26,699 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Best South Asian Fiction
765 books — 1,933 voters