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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Patrisia Sheremeta (55 Lists)



Perdido Street Station by China MiévilleThe Unconsoled by Kazuo IshiguroThe Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
Strange and/or Mind-Bending Adventures
83 books — 66 voters
Tom Jones by Henry FieldingEmma by Jane AustenWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Guardian's 100 English Novels
100 books — 7 voters

The Gray House by Mariam PetrosyanThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Around the World Reading Challenge
18 books — 7 voters
Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Speculative Fiction Classics (pre-1980) by Female Authors
171 books — 98 voters

The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsRebecca by Daphne du MaurierIn a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Female Psychological Thrillers/Suspense Written by Women
1,460 books — 3,505 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,430 books — 16,269 voters

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffLondon by Edward RutherfurdBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Books Based in London
360 books — 108 voters
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Best Books to Read When the Snow Is Falling
14,126 books — 10,049 voters

The Terror by Dan Simmons
Best Historical Fantasy
348 books — 297 voters
The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisHeart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
Books I wish I had never read
1,294 books — 1,361 voters

The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies
2,170 books — 12,218 voters
The Turn of the Screw by Henry JamesRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The best gothic novels, ghost stories and early horror 1764-1937
368 books — 735 voters

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfSilas Marner by George EliotCold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,666 books — 5,755 voters
Life at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse
Downton Abbey-esque Books
612 books — 1,011 voters

Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain
Best Unappreciated Books
4,380 books — 2,238 voters
The Long Walk by Richard BachmanThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonGhost Story by Peter StraubRosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Best Horror Novels
2,113 books — 5,492 voters

The Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Firebrand by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret GeorgeThe Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Awesome Women of the Ancient World
447 books — 967 voters
Alas, Babylon by Pat FrankEarth Abides by George R. StewartOn the Beach by Nevil ShuteThe Long Walk by Richard BachmanDay by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,285 books — 3,449 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
12,056 books — 10,836 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Stand by Stephen KingEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,998 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceParadise Lost by John MiltonHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,685 books — 13,210 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisOn the Beach by Nevil ShuteThe Sheltering Sky by Paul BowlesNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Darkest Books of All Time
1,311 books — 1,721 voters

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanSurfacing by Margaret AtwoodWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Hours by Michael Cunningham
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,204 books — 2,329 voters
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Smells
634 books — 97 voters

The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCulloughThe Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay PenmanThe Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret GeorgeThe Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,792 books — 3,761 voters
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Booker Prize Winners
66 books — 2,001 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Books I Regret Reading
2,306 books — 3,225 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeEmma by Jane AustenRebecca by Daphne du MaurierAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Read Them Twice...At Least
14,227 books — 11,782 voters


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