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

66 books — 113 voters

Cemetery Girl by David Bell

186 books — 41 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Worst Books of All Time

8,112 books — 19,895 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

1,393 books — 1,522 voters

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

I Should Probably Read This Sometime...

12,319 books — 11,268 voters

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)

1,243 books — 2,558 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

1,876 books — 7,000 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Books You Would Recommend to Strangers

13,215 books — 8,665 voters

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,839 books — 22,438 voters

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Best Coming of Age Stories

1,408 books — 1,264 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

276 books — 249 voters

Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies

2,242 books — 2,304 voters

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

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

2,704 books — 13,261 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Commonly Loved Books I Hate

389 books — 526 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

9,533 books — 8,857 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

7,263 books — 28,373 voters