Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/94602-kelly">Kelly</a> (20 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Kelly (20 Lists)

Emma by Jane Austen

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Great Women Authors

1,207 books — 333 voters

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan

Europe Minus Men and English

854 books — 226 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

443 books — 579 voters

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Best Historical Fiction

7,686 books — 25,956 voters

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal

463 books — 1,588 voters

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Vampire books...

544 books — 676 voters

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK

1,134 books — 10,100 voters

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Books That Exceeded Your Expectations

15,316 books — 17,090 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,217 books — 28,368 voters

The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Best Books Ever

77,396 books — 288,817 voters

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Blood Canticle by Anne Rice

Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey

Disappointing Books

2,733 books — 4,602 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century

3,102 books — 10,035 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Books With Unforgettable Characters

9,508 books — 8,659 voters

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay

Best Arthurian Fiction

480 books — 1,447 voters

Selected Poems by Lord Byron

Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

Best Poetry Books

3,006 books — 2,502 voters

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

The Worst Books of All Time

8,096 books — 19,876 voters

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

The Belgariad Boxed Set by David Eddings

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,388 books — 26,346 voters

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,730 books — 6,890 voters

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,889 books — 49,797 voters

Blindness by José Saramago

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,138 books — 3,678 voters