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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sharon Bakar (27 Lists)



One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El AkkadCareless People by Sarah Wynn-WilliamsIs a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
Nonfiction Published in Year: 2025
1,677 books — 216 voters
Seascraper by Benjamin WoodThe Land in Winter by Andrew MillerFlesh by David Szalay
Booker Prize 2025 Longlist
16 books — 26 voters

Flesh by David SzalayNesting by Roisín O'DonnellTime of the Child by Niall WilliamsGliff by Ali SmithWe Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown
Booker Prize Eligible 2025
175 books — 173 voters
The House of Doors by Tan Twan EngProphet Song by Paul LynchThis Other Eden by Paul Harding
Booker Prize 2023 Longlist
13 books — 40 voters

The Colony by Audrey MageeNightcrawling by Leila Mottley
Booker Prize 2022 Longlist
13 books — 54 voters
Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright
FT (Financial Times) McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2018 — the longlist
15 books — 36 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Quiet American by Graham GreeneThe Beach by Alex GarlandThe Lover by Marguerite DurasSightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Best for Backpacking through Southeast Asia
318 books — 338 voters
The Artist's Way by Julia CameronSelf-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni BrowneThe Right to Write by Julia CameronWriting Fiction by Janet BurrowayThe Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner
Best Books on Writing
801 books — 1,333 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Stranger by Albert Camus
World's Greatest Novellas
727 books — 1,458 voters
On Cats by Doris LessingCat Daddy by Jackson Galaxy
Cat Lovers List
1,251 books — 563 voters

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,868 voters
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Road by Cormac McCarthyMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,370 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 MárquezMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,339 books — 4,626 voters
The Vegetarian by Han KangThe Road by Cormac McCarthyLord of the Flies by William GoldingA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Quality Dark Fiction
2,605 books — 3,381 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,937 books — 26,314 voters
On Writing by Stephen KingA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonA Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Biography and Memoirs that are BETTER than Fiction
2,527 books — 3,165 voters

Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Magus by John FowlesBlood River by Tim ButcherThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Best Books Ever
77,851 books — 290,483 voters
The Reader by Bernhard SchlinkThe Plague by Albert CamusA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryAtonement by Ian McEwan
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,407 books — 123,423 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonNotes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Favorite Travel Books
2,046 books — 3,949 voters
Dirt Music by Tim WintonSchindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyOscar and Lucinda by Peter CareyTrue History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Best Modern Australian Literature
564 books — 672 voters

A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Autofiction
78 books — 28 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesAtonement by Ian McEwanOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,839 books — 22,304 voters

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Best Haunted House Fiction That Isn't 'The Shining'
223 books — 230 voters
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
Best Holocaust Novels
189 books — 262 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistrySweetness in the Belly by Camilla GibbThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Canadian Fiction
1,042 books — 605 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsDracula by Bram StokerJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,683 books — 13,208 voters

Harvest by Jim Crace
2013 Man Booker Prize Longlist
14 books — 268 voters