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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Shellie (Layers of Thought) (215 Lists)



Nightshifted by Cassie AlexanderWicked as They Come by Delilah S. DawsonFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesThe Demon Lover by Juliet DarkFirelight by Kristen Callihan
Most Expected Romance Books 2012
420 books — 1,428 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe House of the Stag by Kage Baker
Villain as Romantic Love Interests
729 books — 1,545 voters

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftA Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Abandoned Books
1,469 books — 1,467 voters
Other Kingdoms by Richard Matheson
The Great War
680 books — 597 voters

Book Crush by Nancy PearlA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Hundred Languages of Children by Carolyn P. EdwardsFree Play by Stephen NachmanovitchEmbracing the Wide Sky by Daniel Tammet
Books for Teachers/Educators
780 books — 616 voters
Soulless by Gail CarrigerDarkfever by Karen Marie Moning
Best ADULT Urban Fantasy, Fantasy and Paranormal Romance
4,310 books — 10,052 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeDracula by Bram StokerThe Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Sympathy for the Devil
331 books — 318 voters
Vegan Fire & Spice by Robin RobertsonVeganomicon by Isa Chandra MoskowitzVegan Family Meals by Ann GentrySkinny Bitch by Rory FreedmanEat Vegan on $4.00 a Day by Ellen Jaffe Jones
Best Vegan Cookbooks
294 books — 390 voters

Soulless by Gail CarrigerDarkfever by Karen Marie MoningTwilight by Stephenie Meyer
Best Paranormal Romance Series
1,398 books — 12,606 voters
Island of Wings by Karin AltenbergHalf Blood Blues by Esi EdugyanPink Hotel by Anna StothardThe Translation of the Bones by Francesca Kay
Orange Prize For Fiction Longlist 2012
20 books — 153 voters

The Time in Between by María Dueñas
Books set in, or about, Morocco
38 books — 23 voters
Howards End by E.M. ForsterLady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
Downton Abbey-esque Books
599 books — 997 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenNight by Elie WieselAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Foreign Lands
2,349 books — 2,190 voters
The Iron Wyrm Affair by Lilith SaintcrowThe Taken by Vicki PetterssonThe Twelve by Justin Cronin
Most Anticipated Books of 2012! {PNR, UF & PNYA}
625 books — 1,752 voters

Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin AhmedThe Iron Wyrm Affair by Lilith SaintcrowThe Games by Ted KosmatkaShadow Sight by E.J. StevensEmperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez
Adult Fantasy & Sci-Fi 2012
425 books — 720 voters
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Plague by Albert CamusLeaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Jeff Buckley's Bookshelf
158 books — 41 voters

The Passage by Justin CroninJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeMistborn by Brandon Sanderson
New Speculative Fiction Stars
1,125 books — 2,682 voters
Once on a Moonless Night by Dai SijieSnow Falling in Spring by Moying LiWaiting by Ha JinThe Art of War by Sun TzuMonkey by Wu Cheng'en
Chinese Literature
321 books — 150 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Japanese Books That Are Not Manga
254 books — 190 voters
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher MooreThe History of the Snowman by Bob EcksteinThe Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff GuinnHogfather by Terry PratchettHolidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Best Christmas Holiday Books
697 books — 675 voters

Sabine Dolls by Sandy Hyatt-JamesEncrypted by Lindsay BurokerPost-Human by David SimpsonScourge by David H. BurtonSpace Junque by L.K. Rigel
Self-Published Science Fiction
400 books — 470 voters
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Absurdity of War
124 books — 52 voters

More Book Lust by Nancy PearlThe Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover BartlettBook Lust to Go by Nancy PearlBook Lust by Nancy Pearl
Best Books About Loving Books
374 books — 511 voters
The Host by Stephenie MeyerCordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
Best Sci-Fi/Futuristic Romance
1,414 books — 1,383 voters

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie RyanThe Stupidest Angel by Christopher MooreThe First Days by Rhiannon FraterWarm Bodies by Isaac Marion
Zombies!
1,652 books — 4,311 voters
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Hermetica of Elysium by Annmarie BanksThe Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David LukasThe Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Historical Fantasy
366 books — 177 voters

Hiroshima by John HerseyThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Psychopath Test by Jon RonsonThe Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover BartlettThe Big Necessity by Rose George
Books by Journalists
438 books — 106 voters
Irish Trees by Niall Mac CoitirWicked Plants by Amy StewartLives of the Trees by Diana WellsThe Forest in Folklore and Mythology by Alexander Porteous
Forests in Myth, Folklore and Fairy tales
180 books — 90 voters

The Dawn Country by W. Michael GearPeople of the Longhouse by W. Michael Gear
Native American Historical Fiction
280 books — 273 voters
The Passage by Justin CroninThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth PfefferThis World We Live In by Susan Beth PfefferLife As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Best Post-Apocalyptic Books
220 books — 235 voters