Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/9482173-matthew">Matthew</a> (58 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Matthew (58 Lists)

Gory Details by Erika Engelhaupt

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

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken

If you like Mary Roach...

60 books — 21 voters

Wild Things by Bruce Handy

Nonfiction Books on Children's Literature

419 books — 38 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence

Books-about-Books

128 books — 72 voters

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

Books About Pigs

450 books — 57 voters

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

238 books — 366 voters

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher

What If? by Randall Munroe

Best 21st Century Non-Fiction

2,117 books — 1,492 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

1,441 books — 1,626 voters

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris

Best Books of 2022

1,551 books — 1,860 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

25 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

2,995 books — 5,516 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

4,410 books — 8,065 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

480 books — 1,620 voters

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

The Giver by Lois Lowry

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

380 books — 109 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 — 94 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

1,725 books — 3,102 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

1,136 books — 10,100 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?

4,121 books — 2,299 voters

Versed by Rae Armantrout

Late Wife by Claudia Emerson

Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser

Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Sharon Olds

American Primitive by Mary Oliver

Pulitzer Winners: Poetry

103 books — 53 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

113 books — 129 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

601 books — 344 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

8,182 books — 4,916 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

11,269 books — 8,271 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

1,862 books — 1,927 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

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