Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/5937278-rachel">Rachel</a> (18 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Rachel (18 Lists)

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

Best Mumbai/Bombay Stories

58 books — 103 voters

The Rose Rent by Ellis Peters

Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott

The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree by Susan Wittig Albert

Flowers in Title, Not on Cover

413 books — 93 voters

Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski

Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul by Shamini Flint

The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama

Best Books on Asia

998 books — 824 voters

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Best Humorous Books

4,347 books — 7,953 voters

The Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart

Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons

Christy by Catherine Marshall

When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant

Ava's Man by Rick Bragg

Best Books Set in Appalachia

795 books — 840 voters

A Name of Her Own by Jane Kirkpatrick

Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Pacific Northwest Books

916 books — 610 voters

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Best British and Irish Literature

1,172 books — 1,112 voters

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews

The Silent Treatment by Melanie Surani

Quirky Southern Fiction

970 books — 1,894 voters

Bruchko by Bruce Olson

Peace Child by Don Richardson

Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot

The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson

God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew

Great Missionary Stories

147 books — 181 voters

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Roots by Alex Haley

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Best Historical Fiction

7,448 books — 25,643 voters

Jane Fairfax by Joan Aiken

Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron

Jane and the Man of the Cloth by Stephanie Barron

Impulse and Initiative by Abigail Reynolds

Jane Austen Sequels and Pastiches

303 books — 150 voters

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Frederica by Georgette Heyer

Best Books to Make into a PBS Series

461 books — 384 voters

A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul by Shamini Flint

A Curious Indian Cadaver by Shamini Flint

The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall

The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall

Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill

181 books — 68 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama

Transcultural Fiction

421 books — 209 voters

One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Best Historical Mystery

2,092 books — 4,553 voters

The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill

The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith

Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen

Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron

Mum's the Word by Kate Collins

Cozy Mystery Series - First Book of a Series

1,161 books — 2,472 voters

The Second Cadfael Omnibus by Ellis Peters

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

The Best of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton

A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall

The Servant's Tale by Margaret Frazer

Vicars, Priests, Abbots, Fathers, Abbesses, Pastors, Nuns

782 books — 287 voters

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Arabella by Georgette Heyer

Beauty by Robin McKinley

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

CLEAN Romance Books

2,875 books — 2,032 voters