Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/85682-peggy">Peggy</a> (18 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Peggy (18 Lists)

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck

2025 Tournament of Books Shortlist

18 books — 28 voters

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

2020 Tournament of Books Long List

62 books — 55 voters

Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan

Madness Real and Imagined

65 books — 111 voters

Cemetery Girl by David Bell

186 books — 39 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Worst Books of All Time

8,112 books — 19,889 voters

The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenault

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman

Books about Books

1,392 books — 1,520 voters

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

I Should Probably Read This Sometime...

12,109 books — 10,920 voters

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)

1,208 books — 2,339 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,875 books — 7,000 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Books You Would Recommend to Strangers

13,032 books — 8,505 voters

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,843 books — 22,336 voters

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Best Coming of Age Stories

1,380 books — 1,168 voters

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute

The 9/11 Report by Sid Jacobson

267 books — 239 voters

Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies

2,192 books — 2,083 voters

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,698 books — 13,220 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Commonly Loved Books I Hate

389 books — 525 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Books With Unforgettable Characters

9,517 books — 8,756 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,216 books — 28,372 voters