Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/62343343-barbara">Barbara</a> (95 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Barbara (95 Lists)

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

Best Translated Novels

235 books — 80 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

1984 by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

1,314 books — 3,603 voters

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Babel by R.F. Kuang

Upgrade by Blake Crouch

Best Books of 2022

1,562 books — 1,873 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Best Love Stories

5,275 books — 9,886 voters

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Books made into TV Miniseries/Made for TV movie/TV series

311 books — 34 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Books Made into Movies

1,113 books — 458 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Emma by Jane Austen

Books becoming Movies in 2020

13 books — 9 voters

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Book to Screen Adaptations - 2022

133 books — 19 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey

Books Filmed by Alfred Hitchcock

41 books — 83 voters

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Books Becoming Movies In 2017

50 books — 225 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

American Literature at the Movies

461 books — 180 voters

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

I Haven't Read It But I've Seen the Movie

297 books — 297 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Amadeus by Peter Shaffer

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Both the book and the movie are good!

636 books — 323 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Great American Novel

673 books — 1,114 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Tales of New York City

1,757 books — 1,347 voters

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Best African American Books

1,085 books — 1,354 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

100 Best American Authors

754 books — 618 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Modern-day Classics

366 books — 200 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell

1984 by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

FICTION Books That Opened Your Eyes to a Social or Political Issue

431 books — 370 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Glad my teacher made me read this book

340 books — 402 voters

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Babel by R.F. Kuang

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

381 books — 1,511 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Boarding School Stories

1,003 books — 1,116 voters

Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

1984 by George Orwell

Spy novels that THRILL.

992 books — 1,938 voters

Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

Killer Espionage novels.

1,004 books — 2,050 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books

899 books — 2,399 voters

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Indian Books - Fiction

1,142 books — 2,480 voters

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima

Best Japanese Books

717 books — 3,269 voters

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Best Time Travel Fiction

2,222 books — 5,517 voters

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Best Books of the Decade: 2020's

3,042 books — 5,579 voters

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

All books under 200 pages

450 books — 43 voters

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