Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/990093-sarah">Sarah</a> (27 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sarah (27 Lists)

The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North

Anticipated 2015 Literary Fiction

195 books — 545 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Stranger in the Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher

Novels About Small-Town Life

283 books — 129 voters

The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer

Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

"You're the First One I've Told" by Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein

The Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown

Best Books about HIV/AIDS (Fiction and Non-Fiction)

341 books — 232 voters

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Best Graphic Novels

3,450 books — 6,766 voters

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Night by Elie Wiesel

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Most Depressing Book of All Time

1,237 books — 3,909 voters

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Best Cover Art 2011 (Non-YA)

292 books — 1,538 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Aura by Carlos Fuentes

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

Favorite Magical Realism Novels

1,304 books — 4,522 voters

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

Best Lesbian Graphic Novels

249 books — 233 voters

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle

Stitches by David Small

Pyongyang by Guy Delisle

Best Memoir Graphic Novels

393 books — 436 voters

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

The World According to Garp by John Irving

Books That I Could Read Over and Over Again

7,316 books — 1,684 voters

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

Best Children's Books

5,308 books — 6,707 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

West Side Story by Irving Shulman

The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer

Tales of New York City

1,515 books — 1,222 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Best Foreign Language (non English) Book

1,078 books — 622 voters

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,228 books — 8,061 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

Africa (fiction and nonfiction)

1,762 books — 1,642 voters

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Abandoned Books

1,473 books — 1,465 voters

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Dry by Augusten Burroughs

Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies

2,101 books — 1,950 voters

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

YA Violence & Abuse Novels

699 books — 870 voters

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

Well-Written Holocaust Books

891 books — 2,886 voters

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

About a Boy by Nick Hornby

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK

1,134 books — 10,099 voters

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,608 books — 13,138 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

31,576 books — 120,251 voters

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

What Book Got You Hooked?

3,847 books — 10,519 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,801 books — 49,781 voters

First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago

Memoirs by Women

3,017 books — 3,032 voters

Night by Elie Wiesel

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

1,705 books — 671 voters

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Best Young Adult Books

13,095 books — 80,188 voters