Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/927845-colleen">Colleen</a> (36 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Colleen (36 Lists)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

15,898 books — 18,648 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Amazon's 100 books to read in a lifetime

102 books — 101 voters

The Complete Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Giver by Lois Lowry

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Literary Books to Read with a Young Daughter/Granddaughter

86 books — 19 voters

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Most emotional books

902 books — 1,006 voters

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

Night by Elie Wiesel

History as Literature

746 books — 655 voters

Mr. Emerson's Wife by Amy Belding Brown

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

Little, Big by John Crowley

Pastoralia by George Saunders

Books I wouldn't have discovered without Goodreads

2,680 books — 1,033 voters

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

Radiolab Suggested Readings

182 books — 242 voters

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

Best American History Books

2,237 books — 2,742 voters

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Booker Prize Winners

73 books — 2,016 voters

The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell

Faithful Place by Tana French

The Return by Roberto Bolaño

All That Follows by Jim Crace

Can't Wait Books of 2010

1,233 books — 10,124 voters

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Equus by Peter Shaffer

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

522 books — 457 voters

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Most Difficult Novels

600 books — 2,064 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Best Historical Fiction

7,917 books — 26,336 voters

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Best British and Irish Literature

1,174 books — 1,116 voters

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

Dreamland by Kevin Baker

Wickett's Remedy by Myla Goldberg

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

Tales of New York City

1,731 books — 1,308 voters

The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook by Good Housekeeping

The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook by America's Test Kitchen

1,463 books — 1,117 voters

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum

Best Philosophical Literature

1,205 books — 2,845 voters

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Best Animal-Themed Books

617 books — 491 voters

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

What Book Got You Hooked?

3,967 books — 10,862 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,265 books — 8,146 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Favorites from 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die

506 books — 1,057 voters

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Favorite Magical Realism Novels

1,352 books — 4,677 voters

The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway

Pentimento by Lillian Hellman

Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

Lying by Lauren Slater

Memoirs by Women

3,260 books — 3,364 voters

Lying by Lauren Slater

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

Just Checking by Emily Colas

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas

Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)

1,227 books — 2,442 voters

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich

Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

Best Book Cover Art

12,396 books — 7,093 voters

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson

Old School by Tobias Wolff

Drown by Junot Díaz

New Coming-of-Age Titles for Required High School Reading

175 books — 480 voters

The Complete Poems 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays by Robert Frost

Odes to Common Things by Pablo Neruda

Best Poetry Books

3,051 books — 2,610 voters

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Books that Made You Cry!

3,367 books — 7,994 voters

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Best Literary Mysteries

2,655 books — 4,919 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Best for Book Clubs

15,318 books — 19,605 voters

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