Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/893583-sharon">Sharon</a> (35 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sharon (35 Lists)

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh

A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene H. Peterson

The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey

To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey

2026: What Women Born In The 1970s Have Read So Far This Year

4,003 books — 294 voters

The Light Princess by George MacDonald

The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon

The Dolls' House by Rumer Godden

Best Children's Books Most People Haven't Heard of...

1,774 books — 972 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Animal Farm by George Orwell

J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. Tolkien

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Best Books Ever

79,620 books — 296,650 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Best Audiobooks

1,648 books — 1,177 voters

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

Glad my teacher made me read this book

340 books — 402 voters

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Best Books on Writing

805 books — 1,342 voters

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Different Seasons by Stephen King

The Body by Robin Waterfield

A Passage To India by E.M. Forster

Jaws by Peter Benchley

Best Movie Adaptations

441 books — 273 voters

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Best Adult Vampire Books

1,861 books — 5,080 voters

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

What Book Got You Hooked?

4,017 books — 11,001 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

Books that have stayed with me long after the last page is turned

90 books — 27 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Odyssey by Homer

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

Best Fictional Journey

305 books — 107 voters

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Best Time Travel Fiction

2,219 books — 5,516 voters

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

It's Not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here by Roger L. Welsch

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Home by Marilynne Robinson

Best books about the Mid West

150 books — 89 voters

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Best Books on Creative Life

516 books — 629 voters

Spindle's End by Robin McKinley

Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey

Best Unknown Books

2,413 books — 2,104 voters

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Murder at the Altar by Veronica Heley

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Cozy Mystery Series - First Book of a Series

1,225 books — 2,669 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears

Best Historical Mystery

2,327 books — 4,993 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

Best Fantasy World

1,734 books — 2,247 voters

Zel by Donna Jo Napoli

Fairy Tale Retellings: Hidden Gems

601 books — 748 voters

The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Blackout by Connie Willis

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

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

World War II Fiction

1,504 books — 2,288 voters

Drinking with Miss Dutchie by Ed Breslin

Marley and Me by John Grogan

The dog dies...a cautionary list.

370 books — 273 voters

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Color of Water by James McBride

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Best for Book Clubs

15,516 books — 20,039 voters

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

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

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy Books for Book Club

64 books — 47 voters

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Books that Make you Laugh

3,570 books — 5,140 voters

MASH by Richard Hooker

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss

The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White

A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK

1,122 books — 10,100 voters

Fog Magic by Julia L. Sauer

Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

What Book Would You Like To Live In?

8,789 books — 9,051 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

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

2,734 books — 13,306 voters

Spindle's End by Robin McKinley

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

Deerskin by Robin McKinley

Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley

Tam Lin by Pamela Dean

The Best Fairytales and Retellings

2,864 books — 9,235 voters

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Cruel Painter by George MacDonald

Vampires Who Don't Sparkle

40 books — 9 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraor... by Mark Twain

Best Southern Mysteries

223 books — 129 voters

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