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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Will Byrnes (52 Lists)



Serena by Ron RashGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Best Female Lead Characters
4,827 books — 5,827 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee WilliamsThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
What a Downer...
331 books — 117 voters

The War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsChildhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeA Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
UFOs and Little Green Men
122 books — 39 voters
Watership Down by Richard AdamsA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Books My Sisters Gave Me
14 books — 10 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleLost Horizon by James HiltonA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithThe Call of the Wild by Jack London
Books My Mom Gave Me
219 books — 37 voters
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamSolaris by Stanisław Lem
Books Written by Physicians
194 books — 83 voters

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichThe Other America by Michael HarringtonThe Power Elite by C. Wright MillsThe Big Short by Michael Lewis
How Capitalism Destroys Everything
207 books — 92 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisMoby-Dick by Herman Melville
My Most Favorite Books of All Time
160 books — 36 voters

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. EliotAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Great Cat Books
1,581 books — 953 voters
The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Books About Grieving
52 books — 28 voters

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le CarréThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le CarréThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroHowards End by E.M. ForsterBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Best Novels Set in 20th-century Britain
397 books — 213 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonEndurance by Alfred LansingThe Road by Cormac McCarthyInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Out in the Cold
298 books — 125 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
books you can read over and over
634 books — 192 voters
White Fang by Jack LondonRebecca by Damr Daphnr Du Maurirr
Characters you really adore (put character's name in comment box)
81 books — 40 voters

Jude the Obscure by Thomas HardyRemembering Laughter by Wallace Stegner
The obscure: Best books most haven't read (or even heard of)
536 books — 349 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. AuelThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Over 500 pages
434 books — 108 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDracula by Bram StokerAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. LovecraftMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Monster Books!
560 books — 518 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingCharlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Two words: I. cried.
663 books — 838 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller1984 by George OrwellAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueAlas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Absurdity of War
124 books — 52 voters
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Cherry Picking
213 books — 34 voters

Burr by Gore VidalBreakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Sula by Toni Morrison
Best Books 1973
127 books — 54 voters
Brokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,132 books — 10,110 voters


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