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



Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Amazon's Books of the Year: Top 100 Picks for 2012
100 books — 276 voters
Possession by A.S. ByattA Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara VineAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodFingersmith by Sarah Waters
Best Literary Mysteries
2,684 books — 5,101 voters

Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy TanThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Kitchen God's Wife by Amy TanThe Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Best Novels That Take Place in China
434 books — 1,108 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenGreat Expectations by Charles DickensEmma by Jane AustenAtonement by Ian McEwan
The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"
1,021 books — 604 voters

Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate AtkinsonArticles on Novels by Margaret Atwood, Including by Hephaestus BooksThe Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
Home and family Novels
60 books — 72 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best for Book Clubs
15,478 books — 19,982 voters

Persuasion by Jane AustenTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas HardyEmma by Jane AustenPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,755 books — 6,913 voters
The Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodPossession by A.S. ByattThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Booker Prize Winners
62 books — 2,002 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerBreathing Lessons by Anne TylerThe Hours by Michael Cunningham
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
100 books — 272 voters
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
Orange Prize For Fiction Longlist 2012
20 books — 153 voters

Suite Française by Irène NémirovskyEvery Man Dies Alone by Hans FalladaThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Best Holocaust Novels
190 books — 279 voters
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Best Canadian Literature
2,343 books — 1,156 voters

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Books I wish I had never read
1,308 books — 1,378 voters
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Retro Reads
164 books — 136 voters

One Day by David NichollsOn Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Contemporary British Novels
514 books — 411 voters
A Very Long Engagement by Sébastien JaprisotPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPersuasion by Jane Austen
Books with an interwoven love story
178 books — 133 voters

The Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodAlias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Best of Margaret Atwood
105 books — 253 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakWhat Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
Books that were in my humble opinion wildy overrated to the point of it being nearly a crime
174 books — 105 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm
Favorite books from my childhood
4,516 books — 7,702 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Books About Family Relationships
884 books — 519 voters

The Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Best Sibling Books
786 books — 371 voters
Suite Française by Irène NémirovskyThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,272 books — 28,374 voters

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,654 books — 18,684 voters