Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1855321-jan-c">Jan C</a> (201 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jan C (201 Lists)

The Black Book by Ian Rankin

Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride

Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin

Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin

Black and Blue by Ian Rankin

279 books — 144 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

West with the Night by Beryl Markham

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Strong Female Characters Written by Female Authors

1,677 books — 1,394 voters

The 39 Steps by John Buchan

On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming

In the Woods by Tana French

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le Carré

Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler

Good Old British Thrillers

149 books — 69 voters

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré

Smiley's People by John Le Carré

The 39 Steps by John Buchan

From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming

Moonraker by Ian Fleming

972 books — 1,001 voters

West with the Night by Beryl Markham

The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck

Remembering Laughter by Wallace Stegner

Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey

The obscure: Best books most haven't read (or even heard of)

536 books — 349 voters

Black Betty by Walter Mosley

White Butterfly by Walter Mosley

A Red Death by Walter Mosley

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

Murder Down Under by Arthur W. Upfield

Best Multicultural Mysteries

222 books — 121 voters

Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

The Marx Sisters by Barry Maitland

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

Favorite Mystery Series

410 books — 136 voters

In the Woods by Tana French

The Black Book by Ian Rankin

Angels Flight by Michael Connelly

Cold In The Earth by Aline Templeton

In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke

Best Police Procedurals - Mystery Fiction

1,073 books — 821 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

From Here to Eternity by James Jones

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Best War Novels

1,656 books — 1,374 voters

Night by Elie Wiesel

Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre

The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel

Still Alive by Ruth Klüger

World War II Memoirs

356 books — 176 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein

Animal Farm by George Orwell

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Corruption in High Places

419 books — 284 voters

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Best Books with Rural Settings

1,136 books — 1,014 voters

Co. Aytch by Sam R. Watkins

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

Faded Coat of Blue by Owen Parry

Unto This Hour by Tom Wicker

In the Hands of Providence by Alice Rains Trulock

Best American Civil War Books

1,000 books — 976 voters

The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

Sudden Sea by R.A. Scotti

Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson

Curse of The Narrows by Laura M. Mac Donald

209 books — 40 voters

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers

A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

The Best British Crime/Mystery Fiction

1,208 books — 1,255 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

White Fang by Jack London

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

West with the Night by Beryl Markham

Cork Boat by John Pollack

Tales of Adventure

513 books — 474 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,226 books — 8,080 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Animal Farm by George Orwell

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value

8,071 books — 5,771 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

World War One Literature

224 books — 358 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

BBC Book List 2003

68 books — 97 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels

100 books — 296 voters

Good-Bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton

Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Teachers Featured

281 books — 130 voters

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Parisian Worlds of Frederic Chopin by William G. Atwood

Ulysses by James Joyce

What's the Book You Can't Wait to Read This Summer?

13,762 books — 14,454 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

The Great Bridge by David McCullough

Best Books About Nineteenth Century History

644 books — 280 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Serpentine by Thomas Thompson

Blood and Money by Thomas Thompson

Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi

Unbridled Rage by Gene O'Shea

725 books — 607 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Good books with good movie adaptations

91 books — 15 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Everyone's Read It But Me

800 books — 4,331 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman

Best History Books

3,646 books — 3,674 voters

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

Huh? I Thought That Book Would Be Better Than It Was

882 books — 749 voters

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi

Couldn't Put The Book Down

16,787 books — 16,423 voters

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