Hispanic Heritage Month 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sarah (30 Lists)



Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins
Best Persephone Books
151 books — 168 voters
Schindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyMaus I by Art SpiegelmanMaus II by Art SpiegelmanSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo LeviSophie’s Choice by William Styron
Well-Written Holocaust Books
944 books — 3,187 voters

The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Kindly Ones by Jonathan LittellThe Accidental by Ali Smith
Goodreads 21st Century Literature Group - Most Important Books of the 21st Century
203 books — 233 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonWolf Hall by Hilary MantelMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Best Woman-Authored Books
9,053 books — 6,852 voters

View with a Grain of Sand by Wisława SzymborskaThe Piano Teacher by Elfriede JelinekSämtliche Gedichte by Ingeborg BachmannThe Land of Green Plums by Herta MüllerEichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Europe Minus Men and English
855 books — 231 voters
Great Expectations by Charles DickensMiddlemarch by George EliotLord of the Flies by William GoldingSwann's Way by Marcel ProustA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Penguin Drop Caps
26 books — 70 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxMatilda by Roald Dahl
Books made into really good movies
585 books — 293 voters
Jesus’ Son by Denis JohnsonBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The New York Times Best Works of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years
40 books — 92 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Stranger by Albert CamusIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,885 voters
Matilda by Roald DahlPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieDracula by Bram StokerOthello by William ShakespeareLet the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Best Villains
921 books — 287 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy ParkerA Doll's House by Henrik IbsenBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
783 books — 1,400 voters
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmThe Sleepwalkers by Hermann BrochDarkness Spoken by Ingeborg BachmannThe Waste Books by Georg Christoph LichtenbergGroup Portrait with Lady by Heinrich Böll
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
951 books — 973 voters

The Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckWaiting by Ha JinImperial Woman by Pearl S. BuckWhen We Were Orphans by Kazuo IshiguroRed Sorghum by Mo Yan
Best Novels That Take Place in China
434 books — 1,109 voters
Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius
Best Covers of 2012
284 books — 288 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëDracula by Bram StokerGreat Expectations by Charles DickensAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,744 books — 6,934 voters
Pastoralia by George SaundersBilly Budd and Other Stories by Herman MelvilleIn Persuasion Nation by George SaundersLike You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim ShepardYoung Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Collections of Short Stories
2,979 books — 2,096 voters

The Food Pharmacy by Jean Carper
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,973 books — 3,660 voters
Selected Writings by Guillaume ApollinaireHow German Is It by Walter AbishCollected Poems by Kenneth PatchenOne Hundred Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth RexrothAntipoems by Nicanor Parra
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 180 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz KafkaDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 985 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMiddlemarch by George EliotMrs Dalloway by Virginia WoolfBreak It Down by Lydia DavisTalk Poetry by Mairead Byrne
Favourite female writers
400 books — 30 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHamlet by William ShakespeareAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollSophie’s Choice by William Styron
All kinds of classics that should be read at least once
496 books — 234 voters
Sophie's Choice by William StyronWaiting by Ha JinFlannery O'Connor Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
National Book Award Winners
241 books — 209 voters

Stoner by John WilliamsA Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter HandkeThe Waste Books by Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe Slaves of Solitude by Patrick HamiltonNovels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon
New York Review Books - Classics
633 books — 913 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Realms of Gold by Margaret DrabbleHow Like an Angel by Jack DriscollBy the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie
Book Titles Based on Lines of Poetry or Plays
242 books — 57 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensMiddlemarch by George EliotTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,878 books — 7,006 voters
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
White as the Driven Snow
1,768 books — 257 voters

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmMax und Moritz. Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen by Wilhelm BuschDer Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann
Best German Children Literature
233 books — 203 voters
Be My Knife by David Grossman
Best Book Cover Art
12,388 books — 7,093 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroWhite Noise by Don DeLilloContinental Drift by Russell Banks
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,320 books — 2,448 voters
Like You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard
What To Read Next
21,103 books — 24,798 voters