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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Rebecca Huston (311 Lists)



Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTime Enough for Love by Robert A. HeinleinAnne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
Fictional Redheads
199 books — 133 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
1001 Books I Have Already Read
523 books — 457 voters

Georgiana by Amanda ForemanThe Courtiers by Lucy WorsleyGeorgette Heyer's Regency World by Jennifer KloesterHow to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy MooreJane Austen's England by Roy A. Adkins
Nonfiction Books on the Georgian and Regency eras
203 books — 64 voters
Frog Music by Emma DonoghueTabula Rasa by Ruth Downie
Most Anticipated Historical Mysteries for 2014.
118 books — 183 voters

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersThe Silver Pigs by Lindsey DavisA Dangerous Mourning by Anne PerryMurder at the War by Mary Monica Pulver
Historical Mysteries and Thrillers Featuring Women
524 books — 272 voters
Allies in Healing by Laura DavisThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Courage to Heal by Ellen BassThe Courage to Heal Workbook by Laura DavisWhen Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase
Trauma And Dissociation
229 books — 76 voters

Lady Vixen by Shirlee BusbeeHouse of Dreams by Pauline GedgeHouse of Illusions by Pauline GedgeA Rose in Winter by Kathleen E. WoodiwissThis Other Eden by Marilyn Harris
Villain as Romantic Love Interests
729 books — 1,545 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelHer Highness, the Traitor by Susan HigginbothamHow to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy MooreBring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Born in the 1960s - What We've Read So Far in 2013
533 books — 29 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserSix Wives by David Starkey
The Tower of London
103 books — 34 voters
Tender is the Knight by Jamaica LayneMurder at the War by Mary Monica Pulver
Novels with a SCA setting
2 books — 4 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Secret History of the Mongol Queens by Jack WeatherfordWhat Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool
Books with Really Long Titles
1,625 books — 339 voters
Time Enough for Love by Robert A. HeinleinThe White Dragon by Anne McCaffreyDreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyreThe World Wreckers by Marion Zimmer BradleyDragonquest by Anne McCaffrey
Classic Science Fiction - 1970-1979
272 books — 245 voters

The Face of a Stranger by Anne PerryCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersThe Color of Magic by Terry PratchettA Free Man of Color by Barbara HamblyAngelique by Anne Golon
Best Series With At Least 7 Books
632 books — 359 voters
Shōgun by James ClavellThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuThe Samurai's Garden by Gail TsukiyamaMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby
Japanese Fiction
411 books — 331 voters

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by Fiona CarnarvonIf Walls Could Talk by Lucy WorsleySandringham Days by John MatsonThe English Country House Party by Phyllida BarstowAll the King's Cooks by Peter C.D. Brears
Castles, Great Estates and Homes of the Royals, the Aristocracy and High Society
294 books — 28 voters
Georgiana by Amanda ForemanBess of Hardwick by Mary S. LovellThe Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David CannadinePrivilege and Scandal by Janet GleesonThe Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy
Nonfiction Books on the Aristocracy and High Society
345 books — 70 voters

Blindsided by Richard Merrill CohenUndoing Depression by Richard O'ConnorThe Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
Firsthand Accounts of Living with Chronic, Invisible Illness(es)
329 books — 125 voters
The Quiet American by Graham GreeneOur Man in Havana by Graham GreeneTravels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
Best Graham Greene novels
25 books — 205 voters

The Penelopiad by Margaret AtwoodDreaming the Eagle by Manda ScottThe Song of Rhiannon by Evangeline WaltonThe Twelfth Transforming by Pauline Gedge
Awesome Women of the Ancient World
434 books — 950 voters
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelThe Round House by Louise ErdrichRedshirts by John ScalziElizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell SmithTelegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Best Books of 2012
3,523 books — 9,206 voters

HHhH by Laurent BinetBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelThe Round House by Louise Erdrich
2013 Tournament of Books Finalists
18 books — 24 voters
To Dance with Kings by Rosalind LakerQueen Margot by Alexandre DumasMistress of the Sun by Sandra GullandAngelique by Anne GolonBefore Versailles by Karleen Koen
Historical Fiction - France
511 books — 322 voters

The Return of the King by J.R.R. TolkienThe Quiet American by Graham GreeneThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithThe Mouse That Roared by Leonard Wibberley
Best Books 1955
140 books — 81 voters
The Uncommon Reader by Alan BennettElizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell SmithThe Queen Mother by Lady Colin CampbellPrince Philip by Philip EadeQueen Elizabeth II by Jane Roberts
Elizabeth II: Britain's Monarchy in the 20th and 21st Centuries
144 books — 32 voters

Lady Vixen by Shirlee BusbeeThe Prince of Eden by Marilyn HarrisThis Other Eden by Marilyn HarrisMoonstruck Madness by Laurie McBainMy Lord Monleigh by Jan Cox Speas
They Don't Make Covers Like This Anymore
550 books — 94 voters
The Lady in the Tower by Alison WeirThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserSix Wives by David StarkeyThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Last Boleyn by Karen Harper
Best Books about Anne Boleyn
74 books — 183 voters

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Crystal Cave by Mary StewartThe Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John SteinbeckThe Last Enchantment by Mary StewartThe Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
Best Arthurian Fiction
474 books — 1,430 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 499 voters

Fingersmith by Sarah WatersThe Far Pavilions by M.M. KayeThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonMoloka'i by Alan BrennertOld New York by Edith Wharton
Best 1800s Historical Fiction
451 books — 263 voters
Morgan's Run by Colleen McCulloughThe Touch by Colleen McCulloughThe Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
Historical fiction: Australia
222 books — 104 voters