Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/7247136-beth">BETH</a> (11 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by BETH (11 Lists)

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Speculative Fiction Classics (pre-1980) by Female Authors

171 books — 100 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Passing by Nella Larsen

Best Twentieth Century American Novels

325 books — 232 voters

Sisterhood Is Powerful by Robin Morgan

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read

783 books — 1,400 voters

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Quiet by Susan Cain

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

Best of 21st Century Non-fiction

1,339 books — 1,397 voters

The Year of Less by Cait Flanders

Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin

Your Money or Your Life by Joe Domínguez

Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Voluntary Simplicity

31 books — 20 voters

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

4,095 books — 26,978 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,981 books — 125,127 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,825 books — 22,627 voters

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

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,818 books — 49,885 voters

Roots by Alex Haley

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Best Historical Fiction

8,256 books — 27,218 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

World War II Literature

286 books — 190 voters