Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/9967882-abbey">Abbey</a> (26 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Abbey (26 Lists)

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Night by Elie Wiesel

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

favorite non-fiction

2,963 books — 1,448 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

Historical Fiction - The American South

373 books — 123 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

15,971 books — 18,740 voters

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,838 books — 22,430 voters

How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman

The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer

The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001-2010 by America's Test Kitchen

How to Cook Books

545 books — 86 voters

Tequila Mockingbird by Tim Federle

Geeky Cookbooks

236 books — 85 voters

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Booker Prize Winners

74 books — 2,016 voters

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Pull Me Under by Kelly Luce

Oooh Shiny November 2016

19 books — 5 voters

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

The Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce

The Crow by Alison Croggon

Best "Strong Female" Fantasy Novels

4,820 books — 19,071 voters

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

Book of the Month Club Picks

190 books — 86 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Ain't I a Woman by bell hooks

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Books White People Need to Read

1,431 books — 1,789 voters

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,182 books — 3,684 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Harry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. Rowling

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,263 books — 28,372 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Bossypants by Tina Fey

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

Best Books of the Decade: 2010s

7,749 books — 14,418 voters

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

Best Spiritual Books

1,592 books — 1,573 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Best Woman-Authored Books

8,851 books — 6,313 voters

Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Anti-Racism Book Club

53 books — 3 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

Best Feminist Books

2,855 books — 4,125 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

Boston Public Library: The 100 Most Influential Books of the 20th Century

103 books — 89 voters

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Canadian Fiction

1,042 books — 605 voters

Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez

Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez

Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez

YA for Middle School Boys

15 books — 5 voters

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Ultimate Bucket List of Books

61 books — 11 voters

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Best Books Ever

78,615 books — 292,941 voters

Harry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. Rowling

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Best Young Adult Book Series

331 books — 659 voters

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Night by Elie Wiesel

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,690 books — 124,214 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Best Southern Literature

1,384 books — 2,604 voters