Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/927845-colleen">Colleen</a> (36 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Colleen (36 Lists)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

15,066 books — 17,241 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Amazon's 100 books to read in a lifetime

102 books — 99 voters

The Complete Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Giver by Lois Lowry

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Literary Books to Read with a Young Daughter/Granddaughter

87 books — 22 voters

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Most emotional books

892 books — 949 voters

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

Night by Elie Wiesel

History as Literature

727 books — 535 voters

Mr. Emerson's Wife by Amy Belding Brown

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

Little, Big by John Crowley

Pastoralia by George Saunders

Books I wouldn't have discovered without Goodreads

2,669 books — 1,034 voters

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

Radiolab Suggested Readings

181 books — 241 voters

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

Best American History Books

2,104 books — 2,464 voters

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Booker Prize Winners

60 books — 1,982 voters

The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell

Faithful Place by Tana French

The Return by Roberto Bolaño

All That Follows by Jim Crace

Can't Wait Books of 2010

1,232 books — 10,140 voters

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Equus by Peter Shaffer

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

520 books — 457 voters

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Most Difficult Novels

583 books — 2,040 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Best Historical Fiction

7,261 books — 25,409 voters

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Best British and Irish Literature

1,181 books — 1,111 voters

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

Dreamland by Kevin Baker

Wickett's Remedy by Myla Goldberg

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

Tales of New York City

1,500 books — 1,214 voters

The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook by Good Housekeeping

The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook by America's Test Kitchen

1,436 books — 1,104 voters

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum

Best Philosophical Literature

1,145 books — 2,747 voters

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Best Animal-Themed Books

609 books — 486 voters

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

What Book Got You Hooked?

3,795 books — 10,242 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,222 books — 8,062 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Favorites from 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die

501 books — 1,053 voters

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Favorite Magical Realism Novels

1,295 books — 4,444 voters

The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway

Pentimento by Lillian Hellman

Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

Lying by Lauren Slater

Memoirs by Women

2,945 books — 2,992 voters

Lying by Lauren Slater

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

Just Checking by Emily Colas

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas

Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)

1,135 books — 2,247 voters

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich

Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

Best Book Cover Art

12,384 books — 7,100 voters

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson

Old School by Tobias Wolff

Drown by Junot Díaz

New Coming-of-Age Titles for Required High School Reading

170 books — 475 voters

The Complete Poems 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays by Robert Frost

Odes to Common Things by Pablo Neruda

Best Poetry Books

2,964 books — 2,410 voters

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Books that Made You Cry!

3,351 books — 7,776 voters

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Best Literary Mysteries

2,511 books — 4,492 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Best for Book Clubs

14,377 books — 18,187 voters

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