Top Retellings of Classic Tales

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Julia (31 Lists)



The Travels of Marco Polo, Illustrated Editions by Marco PoloInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerThe Year of Living Danishly by Helen RussellWild by Cheryl StrayedA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Wanderlust
1,051 books — 1,144 voters
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Task 24 #ReadHarder 2019
123 books — 31 voters

Wool by Hugh Howey
Task 23 #ReadHarder 2019
103 books — 18 voters
A Different Pond by Bao Phi
Task 22 #ReadHarder 2019
104 books — 18 voters

Lumberjanes by N.D. Stevenson
Task 21 #ReadHarder 2019
86 books — 27 voters
The Travels by Marco Polo
Task 20 #ReadHarder 2019
106 books — 16 voters

The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Task 19 #ReadHarder 2019
95 books — 40 voters
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
Task 18 #ReadHarder 2019
213 books — 34 voters

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Task 17 #ReadHarder 2019
140 books — 33 voters
An Unconditional Freedom by Alyssa Cole
Task 16 #ReadHarder 2019
130 books — 17 voters

Circe by Madeline MillerThe Iliad by Gareth HindsThe Odyssey by Gareth Hinds
Task 15 #ReadHarder 2019
142 books — 44 voters
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Task 13 #ReadHarder 2019
235 books — 64 voters

The Bees by Laline PaullGrendel by John Gardner
Task 12 #ReadHarder 2019
115 books — 31 voters
The Complete Chi's Sweet Home, Part 1 by Kanata Konami
Task 11 #ReadHarder 2019
157 books — 24 voters

The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Task 10 #ReadHarder 2019
172 books — 48 voters
Recovering the Sacred by Winona LaDuke
Task 9 #ReadHarder 2019
216 books — 23 voters

The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Task 8 #ReadHarder 2019 #ownvoices
119 books — 25 voters
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Task 6 #ReadHarder 2019
53 books — 25 voters

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the... by Joshua Hammer
Task 5 #ReadHarder 2019
159 books — 48 voters
Going into Town by Roz Chast
Task 4 #ReadHarder 2019
129 books — 42 voters

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Task 3 #ReadHarder 2019
104 books — 43 voters
Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
Task 2 #ReadHarder 2019
111 books — 58 voters

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Task 1 #ReadHarder 2019
130 books — 61 voters
Redefining Girly by Melissa Atkins WardyHow Children Succeed by Paul ToughThe Power of Play by David ElkindParenting Beyond Belief by Dale McGowanThe Happiest Toddler on the Block by Harvey Karp
Most Influential Parenting Books
394 books — 593 voters

Redefining Girly by Melissa Atkins WardySuper Baby by Jenn BermanHow Children Succeed by Paul ToughThe Power of Play by David ElkindCinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein
Best Parenting Books
216 books — 210 voters
The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel
Books I Regret Reading
2,248 books — 3,226 voters

Sweetsmoke by David FullerKindred by Octavia E. ButlerPudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark TwainNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Books about American slavery
405 books — 405 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Best Love Stories
5,165 books — 9,612 voters

Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter NaslundMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleCaptains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Nautical Novels
428 books — 330 voters
Being a Green Mother by Piers AnthonyFor Love of Evil by Piers Anthony
Sympathy for the Devil
331 books — 318 voters


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