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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Anna (23 Lists)



Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
Man Booker 2016 Longlist
13 books — 97 voters
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Japanese Literature
310 books — 388 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienMansfield Park by Jane Austen
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,876 books — 6,999 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,434 books — 1,777 voters

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourtBlindness by José SaramagoHigh Fidelity by Nick HornbyThe Firm by Robin WaterfieldTrainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,155 books — 3,684 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,374 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna TarttA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganAnd the Mountains Echoed by Khaled HosseiniThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,722 books — 14,377 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardMatilda by Roald DahlThe Witches by Roald DahlThe Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,255 books — 2,435 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezBlindness by José SaramagoThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Stranger by Albert Camus
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
380 books — 284 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,350 books — 4,673 voters

The Childhood of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2013
176 books — 322 voters
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
167 books — 701 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Highbrow Fantasy Books
423 books — 631 voters
Trainspotting by Irvine WelshLanark by Alasdair GrayTreasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Best Scottish Fiction
423 books — 286 voters

The Neverending Story by Michael EndeMomo by Michael EndeKrabat by Otfried PreußlerOh, wie schön ist Panama by JanoschMax und Moritz. Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen by Wilhelm Busch
Best German Children Literature
234 books — 202 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardEnder's Shadow by Orson Scott CardTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,727 books — 25,604 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
SUB-Listen-Wettbewerb 2011
19 books — 2 voters
The Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2011
155 books — 277 voters

The Neverending Story by Michael EndeThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,949 books — 1,887 voters
Atemschaukel by Herta Müller
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature of the 21st Century
204 books — 116 voters

Russendisko by Wladimir KaminerKrabat by Otfried PreußlerMomo by Michael EndeAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Best German Authors
616 books — 707 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezEast of Eden by John SteinbeckSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,827 voters

Matilda by Roald DahlThe Witches by Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
35 books — 182 voters