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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Dianna Caley (9 Lists)



The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonCatch-22 by Joseph HellerAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Conspiracy Fiction
1,434 books — 1,767 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
767 books — 1,012 voters

Matilda by Roald DahlThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Children's Books I'll Re-Read No Matter How Old I Am
2,558 books — 3,749 voters
Cleopatra by Stacy SchiffThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Black Count by Tom ReissClarence Darrow for the Defense by Irving Stone
Best Biographies
1,743 books — 3,191 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García MárquezEsperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Latin American Fiction
893 books — 1,200 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Help by Kathryn StockettJanet Evanovich Three and Four Two-Book Set by Janet EvanovichA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Must Read!!
134 books — 80 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,827 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Last Kingdom by Bernard CornwellDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensOliver Twist by Charles DickensBleak House by Charles Dickens
History through Novels: England/UK
313 books — 183 voters

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Books Ever
78,330 books — 291,995 voters