The Big Books of Fall

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



The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North
Anticipated 2015 Literary Fiction
197 books — 548 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Stranger in the Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher
Novels About Small-Town Life
302 books — 137 voters

The Normal Heart by Larry KramerTell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka BruntAnd the Band Played On by Randy Shilts"You're the First One I've Told" by Kathryn Whetten-GoldsteinThe Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown
Best Books about HIV/AIDS (Fiction and Non-Fiction)
341 books — 230 voters
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Best Graphic Novels
3,515 books — 6,816 voters

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonNight by Elie WieselWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,231 books — 3,981 voters
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Best Cover Art 2011 (Non-YA)
292 books — 1,536 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAura by Carlos FuentesThe Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,367 books — 4,693 voters
Fun Home by Alison BechdelThe Essential Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Best Lesbian Graphic Novels
249 books — 233 voters

Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiFun Home by Alison BechdelBurma Chronicles by Guy DelisleStitches by David SmallPyongyang by Guy Delisle
Best Memoir Graphic Novels
428 books — 479 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Giver by Lois LowryWonder Boys by Michael ChabonThe World According to Garp by John Irving
Books That I Could Read Over and Over Again
7,294 books — 1,680 voters

The Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinThe Lorax by Dr. SeussLittle House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderSideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Best Children's Books
5,431 books — 7,048 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldWest Side Story by Irving ShulmanThe Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
Tales of New York City
1,750 books — 1,343 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,091 books — 629 voters
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,415 books — 8,192 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverA Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,895 books — 1,781 voters
Wicked by Gregory MaguireHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThree Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Abandoned Books
1,463 books — 1,467 voters

Night by Elie WieselThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiDry by Augusten Burroughs
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,285 books — 2,560 voters
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
YA Violence & Abuse Novels
705 books — 872 voters

Number the Stars by Lois LowryNight by Elie WieselThe Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Well-Written Holocaust Books
938 books — 3,107 voters
The Hours by Michael CunninghamBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxAbout a Boy by Nick HornbyGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,122 books — 10,103 voters

Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,722 books — 13,299 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,896 books — 124,849 voters

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
What Book Got You Hooked?
4,012 books — 10,963 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,874 voters

First They Killed My Father by Loung UngPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertAlmost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
Memoirs by Women
3,421 books — 3,855 voters
Night by Elie WieselAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Memoirs by Men
1,812 books — 749 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryThe Westing Game by Ellen RaskinThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonPhoenix Rising by Karen HesseThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Best Young Adult Books
13,339 books — 80,647 voters