Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Christina (23 Lists)



Matilda by Roald DahlThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Best Female Lead Characters
4,874 books — 5,919 voters
After Birth by Elisa Albert
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,171 books — 2,292 voters

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Books About Paris
720 books — 573 voters
Chocolat by Joanne HarrisThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferUnder the Tuscan Sun by Frances MayesMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,141 books — 1,868 voters

Little Bee by Chris CleaveChocolat by Joanne Harris
Best Feminist Fiction
1,502 books — 2,672 voters
The Holy Bible by AnonymousOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLife of Pi by Yann MartelLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,640 books — 13,170 voters

Paris by Edward Rutherfurd
Historical Fiction 2013
395 books — 2,118 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Books That Exceeded Your Expectations
15,232 books — 16,862 voters

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Best Historical Fiction Books that Are Actually Historical Fiction
2,551 books — 2,820 voters
The Hours by Michael CunninghamThe Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Fictionalized accounts of real people
350 books — 109 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfAdeline by Norah Vincent
From Virginia's Room
85 books — 60 voters
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,374 books — 5,322 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Purity Myth by Jessica ValentiCat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
Best Feminist Books
2,650 books — 3,617 voters
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Frenchwoman Writers
109 books — 19 voters

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
2015: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2015
1,931 books — 539 voters
Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel BarberyLe Mariage by Diane JohnsonLe Divorce by Diane JohnsonThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel BarberyChocolat by Joanne Harris
France in Contemporary Fiction
258 books — 181 voters

A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé
Europa Edition Books
126 books — 140 voters
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,371 voters

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa DiffenbaughThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Best for Book Clubs
15,057 books — 18,970 voters
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Stories For Book Lovers
8,413 books — 8,504 voters

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,237 books — 8,067 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,013 books — 121,509 voters

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanLittle Bee by Chris Cleave
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,015 books — 1,457 voters