A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Barbara (69 Lists)



A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Historical Fiction
8,240 books — 27,157 voters
The Control of Nature by John McPheeArctic Dreams by Barry LopezWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Some Great Books on Nature
264 books — 226 voters

What Matters in Jane Austen? by John MullanJane Austen by Claire TomalinSo You Think You Know Jane Austen? by John Sutherland
Jane Austen non fiction
86 books — 21 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Three Million Ratings!!!
41 books — 68 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Two Million Ratings!!
71 books — 63 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
One Million Ratings!
252 books — 1,098 voters

A Truth Universally Acknowledged by Susannah CarsonJane Austen by Claire Tomalin
Jane Austen and her world
88 books — 36 voters
A Truth Universally Acknowledged by Susannah CarsonA Fine Brush on Ivory by Richard JenkynsReading Jane Austen by Jenny DavidsonThe Regency Years by Robert Morrison30 Great Myths about Jane Austen by Claudia L. Johnson
Best Nonfiction About Jane Austen and Her Writing
34 books — 4 voters

North and South by Elizabeth GaskellCranford by Elizabeth GaskellMiddlemarch by George EliotJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëVanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
More Jane for the Austen Purist
150 books — 139 voters
The World According to Garp by John IrvingA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingAn American Tragedy by Theodore DreiserSister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Greatest American Novels of the 20th Century
122 books — 106 voters

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourtDubliners by James JoyceDracula by Bram StokerThe Secret Scripture by Sebastian BarryA Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
Best Irish Literature
646 books — 724 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldEmma by Jane AustenLes Misérables by Victor HugoMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertNorth and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Best Popular Classics Books on Goodreads
337 books — 45 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertOliver Twist by Charles DickensAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
500 Masterworks of Fiction (You pick 'em)
494 books — 112 voters
Great Expectations by Charles DickensDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensBleak House by Charles DickensOliver Twist by Charles DickensLittle Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Best of Charles Dickens
111 books — 265 voters

Hard Times by Charles DickensMiddlemarch by George EliotBleak House by Charles DickensVillette by Charlotte Brontë
Nineteenth Century British: Victorian List
48 books — 31 voters
Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoEl llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo
Viva México Cabrones
18 books — 3 voters

La perle by John Steinbeck
What foreigners write about Mexico
34 books — 2 voters
Mexicanidad y esquizofrenia by Agustín Basave Benítez
Libros para entender a México
22 books — 3 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezDoña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos
Latin American Classics / Clásicos latinoamericanos
79 books — 14 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezPaula by Isabel AllendeDoña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos
Latin America: Greatest Literature
31 books — 7 voters

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Best Book by Mario Vargas Llosa
29 books — 60 voters
La casa de los espíritus by Isabel Allende
Novelas en español escritas por mujeres
232 books — 118 voters

A Wicked War by Amy S. GreenbergArts and Crafts of Mexico by Chloe Sayer
Books Set in Mexico
478 books — 191 voters
Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLos de abajo by Mariano AzuelaThe Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
Mexican Literature
392 books — 231 voters

Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLa casa de los espíritus by Isabel AllendeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezPaula by Isabel Allende
Libros en Español
745 books — 657 voters
La región más transparente by Carlos FuentesMany Mexicos by Lesley Byrd SimpsonThe Art of Mexican Cooking by Diana KennedyRecipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico by Diana KennedyMéxico by Enrique Krauze
Conociendo a México
15 books — 2 voters

The House of Mirth by Edith WhartonNana by Émile ZolaGerminal by Émile ZolaAn American Tragedy by Theodore DreiserTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Naturalism and Realism
128 books — 22 voters
An American Tragedy by Theodore DreiserAmerican Prometheus by Kai Bird
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,238 books — 1,686 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe World According to Garp by John Irving
Best Twentieth Century American Novels
325 books — 232 voters
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourtInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerEducated by Tara WestoverGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenWest with the Night by Beryl Markham
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,687 books — 8,282 voters


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