A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by George P. (249 Lists)



Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonStill Alice by Lisa GenovaA Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos OzThe Big Year by Mark ObmascikThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 2000s
181 books — 8 voters
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Boys in the Boat by Daniel James BrownRoom by Emma DonoghuePersepolis by Marjane SatrapiJust Kids by Patti Smith
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 2010s
218 books — 8 voters

Becoming Earth by Ferris JabrEveryone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan BlitzerEverything Is Tuberculosis by John GreenFire Weather by John VaillantThe Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 2020s
99 books — 6 voters
Goodbye Mr. Chips by James HiltonThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Stories with Inspirational Teachers
65 books — 50 voters

The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
The best Dutch literature
415 books — 387 voters
El cuarto de atrás by Carmen Martín GaiteLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLa mujer habitada by Gioconda BelliLos recuerdos del porvenir by Elena GarroNada by Carmen Laforet
Novelas en español escritas por mujeres
232 books — 118 voters

Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos
Literature of Venezuela
164 books — 27 voters
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
Icelandic Novels / Isländische Romane / Íslenskar skáldsögur
84 books — 9 voters

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García MárquezMemories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
19 books — 63 voters
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel AllendeGabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge AmadoOf Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Hispanic Fiction
265 books — 96 voters

The Body by Bill BrysonKing by Jonathan EigThe Right Stuff by Tom WolfeUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Best Narrative Nonfiction
208 books — 199 voters
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas LlosaThe Bone People by Keri HulmeThe Bridge on the Drina by Ivo AndrićBroken April by Ismail KadareThe Burning Plain and Other Stories by Juan Rulfo
Cultural reads
412 books — 174 voters

Suite Française by Irène NémirovskyThe Joke by Milan KunderaThe Radetzky March by Joseph RothPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovПод игото by Ivan Vazov
Greatest Eastern European Classics
445 books — 266 voters
Room by Emma DonoghueBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Children of Men by P.D. JamesThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,505 books — 16,705 voters

Borstal Boy by Brendan BehanGirl with Green Eyes by Edna O'BrienRoom by Emma DonoghueFools of Fortune by William TrevorSmall Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Best Irish Books
690 books — 615 voters
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahernWe Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'TooleRoom by Emma DonoghueSmall Things Like These by Claire KeeganThe Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
Best Irish Literature
646 books — 725 voters

Desonra by J.M. CoetzeeVida e Proezas de Aléxis Zorbás by Nikos KazantzakisEu sei por que o pássaro canta na gaiola by Maya AngelouO deserto dos tártaros by Dino BuzzatiO Leopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
TAG - Experiências Literárias
113 books — 16 voters
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaPerfume by Patrick Süskind
Eurovision Book Contest
38 books — 9 voters

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas HardyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Books from High-School English Courses
246 books — 155 voters
Alias Grace by Margaret AtwoodA Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Scotiabank Giller Prize Winners
28 books — 74 voters

Founding Brothers by Joseph J. EllisUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Right Stuff by Tom WolfeDispatches by Michael HerrWild Swans by Jung Chang
Best History Books
4,101 books — 4,693 voters
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorSuite Française by Irène NémirovskyNada by Carmen LaforetLike Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The 100 Best Books by Women Writers in Translation (#100BestWIT)
100 books — 46 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Extensive Reading for Lexile 950-1200
62 books — 2 voters
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauOut of Africa by Isak DinesenComing of Age in Samoa by Margaret MeadThe Pianist by Władysław Szpilman
Classic Nonfiction
33 books — 6 voters

Northanger Abbey by Jane AustenRip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Best Books of the Decade: 1810s
144 books — 331 voters
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore CooperThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Best Books of the Decade: 1820s
201 books — 152 voters

Père Goriot by Honoré de BalzacEugene Onegin by Alexander PushkinThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoOliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1830s
234 books — 219 voters
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassThe Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai GogolThe Gold Bug by Edgar Allan PoeThe Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan PoeWhite Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
275 books — 391 voters


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