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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Elysabeth (14 Lists)



Those Who Save Us by Jenna BlumMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerThe History of Love by Nicole KraussAmerican Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,224 books — 28,363 voters
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,674 books — 14,019 voters

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,141 books — 3,670 voters
Bread Alone by Judi Hendricks
Best Books You've Never Heard Of
1,268 books — 794 voters

Love Walked In by Marisa de los SantosThe Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa BankDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca WellsThe Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Favorite Chick-Lit
2,380 books — 4,612 voters
What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] by Zoë Heller
Student-Teacher Affair Novels
387 books — 1,784 voters

Secrets of the Tsil Cafe by Thomas Fox Averill
Food-Related Fiction
855 books — 601 voters
Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas
Best YA Books Ever
548 books — 534 voters

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerThe History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Tales of New York City
1,500 books — 1,214 voters
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Best American Plays
249 books — 367 voters

The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,132 books — 10,110 voters
Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas
Best Young Adult Books
13,031 books — 80,085 voters

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomerySons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Best Books Ever
74,931 books — 277,878 voters
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryMatilda by Roald DahlMrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonaldLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Favorite books from my childhood
4,380 books — 7,399 voters