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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by CR Williams (53 Lists)



The Sentence by Louise ErdrichThe Marrow Thieves by Cherie DimalineThe Good Lord Bird by James McBrideStorm of Locusts by Rebecca RoanhorseNettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
2024: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2024
6,109 books — 353 voters
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusBabel by R.F. KuangThe Kaiju Preservation Society by John ScalziHow High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia NagamatsuWhat Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Best Books of 2022
1,559 books — 1,872 voters

Lone Women by Victor LaValleCrook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
Best Books of 2023
1,250 books — 1,877 voters
1984 by George Orwell
The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"
1,021 books — 613 voters

1984 by George OrwellA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAs I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Mental Floss' The Curious Reader
65 books — 2 voters
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthyThe Employees by Olga Ravn
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2023
79 books — 60 voters

Just Like Home by Sarah GaileyWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonRebecca by Daphne du MaurierMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Best Haunted House Fiction That Isn't 'The Shining'
222 books — 229 voters
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Hugo Award Winning Novellas
65 books — 83 voters

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon SilkoThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman AlexieThere There by Tommy Orange
Native American Fiction
846 books — 646 voters
The African Trilogy by Chinua AchebeAmerica Is in the Heart by Carlos BulosanAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Best of Richard Matheson by Richard MathesonBlack No More by George S. Schuyler
Penguin 75
75 books — 2 voters

Matter by Iain M. BanksAnathem by Neal Stephenson
Best Hard Science Fiction of the 21st Century
255 books — 1,552 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
100 books — 275 voters

Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodPerdido Street Station by China MiévilleAnathem by Neal StephensonThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Classic Science Fiction - 2000-2009
342 books — 245 voters
Caliban’s War by James S.A. CoreyAbaddon’s Gate by James S.A. CoreyEmbassytown by China Miéville
Science Fiction - 2010-2019
639 books — 768 voters

Grass by Sheri S. TepperPerdido Street Station by China MiévilleGood Omens by Terry PratchettChildren of God by Mary Doria RussellUse of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,837 books — 26,146 voters
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanDoomsday Book by Connie Willis
Joint Winners of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
27 books — 74 voters

Grass by Sheri S. Tepper
Most Under-rated Science Fiction
2,180 books — 2,689 voters
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Books that Love Words
100 books — 122 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanHyperion by Dan SimmonsThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. HeinleinThe Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Favorite Novels Which Won the Hugo Award
90 books — 1,632 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodMatter by Iain M. BanksGrass by Sheri S. Tepper
Left-wing Science Fiction and Fantasy
340 books — 298 voters

Twilight by Stephenie MeyerChicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield
The Worst Books of All Time
8,125 books — 19,914 voters
Swamplandia! by Karen RussellThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternA Discovery of Witches by Deborah HarknessWhile Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Reamde by Neal Stephenson
Deferred Gratification: 2011's Most Eagerly Awaited New Books
126 books — 375 voters

Alice in Wonderland by Jane CarruthWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Metamorphosis by Peter Kuper
Bizarre books
666 books — 416 voters
Perdido Street Station by China MiévilleHis Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Highbrow Fantasy Books
425 books — 633 voters

Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsTrainspotting by Irvine WelshGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Abandoned Books
1,472 books — 1,469 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellThe Reader by Bernhard SchlinkThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Saddest Books
484 books — 724 voters

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingThe Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Dragons
1,925 books — 2,579 voters
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,652 books — 70,193 voters


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