Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/9482173-matthew">Matthew</a> (54 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Matthew (54 Lists)

Great with Child by Beth Ann Fennelly

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

The Letters of Denise Levertov & William Carlos Williams by Denise Levertov

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

Letters To And From: Fan Mail, Hate Mail, Love Letters, Communique & Correspondence (Non-Fiction)

323 books — 81 voters

The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

The Guinea Pig Diaries by A.J. Jacobs

Coop by Michael Perry

The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro

A Year in the Life

219 books — 331 voters

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher

What If? by Randall Munroe

Best 21st Century Non-Fiction

2,042 books — 1,346 voters

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

Fuzz by Mary Roach

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Best Books of 2021

1,437 books — 1,620 voters

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris

Best Books of 2022

1,549 books — 1,855 voters

Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Best books of October, 2024

112 books — 13 voters

Big Dumb Eyes by Nate Bargatze

Best books of May, 2025

39 books — 20 voters

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Best books of August, 2025

28 books — 6 voters

Replaceable You by Mary Roach

Best books of September, 2025

24 books — 8 voters

Finalists by Rae Armantrout

Muddy Matterhorn by Heather McHugh

A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost

A City on Mars by Kelly Weinersmith

The Hurting Kind by Ada Limon

Best Books of the Decade: 2020's

2,951 books — 5,468 voters

The PreHistory of The Far Side by Gary Larson

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka

A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost

I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson

Best Humorous Books

4,363 books — 7,976 voters

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Funny Women Memoirs

461 books — 1,552 voters

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

The Giver by Lois Lowry

[ATY 2025] Time Travel, Alternate Universes, Alternate Timelines

379 books — 106 voters

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

[ATY 2025] Dealing with Death

456 books — 93 voters

Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas

The Secret Life of Houdini by William Kalush

Daws by Betty Lee Skinner

A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost

Shakespeare by Bill Bryson

Best Biographies

1,690 books — 2,968 voters

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK

1,134 books — 10,099 voters

Your Own Words by Barbara Wallraff

Gulp by Mary Roach

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs

You Read a Book about What?

4,086 books — 2,144 voters

Versed by Rae Armantrout

Late Wife by Claudia Emerson

Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser

Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds

American Primitive by Mary Oliver

Pulitzer Winners: Poetry

103 books — 54 voters

Real Sofistikashun by Tony Hoagland

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

How to Read a Poem... by Molly Peacock

Best Books on Writing Poetry

112 books — 127 voters

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Book of Atrus by Rand Miller

What Else To Read After Harry Potter

54 books — 36 voters

The Martian by Andy Weir

Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales

The Best How To Survive Books

84 books — 41 voters

My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers

Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

When God is Silent by Barbara Brown Taylor

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Best Christian books

595 books — 322 voters

The Book of Atrus by Rand Miller

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

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

Most Interesting World

8,137 books — 4,832 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Sphere by Michael Crichton

Books I Will Never Forget

11,116 books — 7,985 voters

Rascal by Sterling North

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

Stuart Little by E.B. White

Best Books About Animals

1,847 books — 1,855 voters

Holy Bible by Anonymous

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Wit by Margaret Edson

books that can be read a billion times yet never get old

957 books — 449 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Books I Regret Reading

2,299 books — 3,225 voters

Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby

What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund

Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve by Ben Blatt

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

Stories For Book Lovers

8,417 books — 8,513 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

Most Depressing Book of All Time

1,228 books — 3,924 voters

World War Z by Max Brooks

The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines

I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson

The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

1,676 books — 4,330 voters

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