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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Peter (10 Lists)



Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Books White People Need to Read
1,407 books — 1,688 voters
Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Golden Bowl by Henry JamesThe Ambassadors by Henry JamesThe Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Best Books Ever
78,358 books — 292,118 voters

Embracing Defeat by John W. DowerKokoro by Natsume SōsekiThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellHiroshima by John Hersey
Best Books About Japan
533 books — 359 voters
Snow Country by Yasunari KawabataThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellThousand Cranes by Yasunari KawabataThe Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari KawabataNorwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Japanese Fiction
416 books — 337 voters

Puer Tea by Jinghong ZhangFor All the Tea in China by Sarah RoseThe Empire of Tea by Alan Macfarlane
Tea for Me, Please
142 books — 57 voters
The Girl Who Played Go by Shan SaBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Great Chinese Historical Fiction
219 books — 278 voters

To Change China by Jonathan D. SpenceThe Good Women of China by XinranWaiting by Ha JinMao Zedong by Jonathan D. SpenceFactory Girls by Leslie T. Chang
Best Books About China
748 books — 588 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Glass Palace by Amitav GhoshSea of Poppies by Amitav GhoshAnil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Best South Asian Fiction
753 books — 1,930 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,567 books — 123,990 voters
Theodore Roosevelt by Kathleen Dalton
Best Presidential Biographies (nonfiction)
470 books — 528 voters