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 Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,248 books — 2,424 voters

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

Best Historical Fiction

7,263 books — 25,433 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

On Writing by Stephen King

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The March by E.L. Doctorow

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,203 books — 28,364 voters

The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King

Promises in Death by J.D. Robb

Just Recipes by Karen M. Fjeldheim

The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel

Sultana by Alan Huffman

579 books — 2,398 voters

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Perfo... by Peter Weiss

And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won Off Fat... by David Forrest

She Was Nice to Mice by Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy

No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Bl... by Edgardo Vega Yunqué

In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke

Books with Really Long Titles

1,625 books — 339 voters

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Abandoned Books

1,469 books — 1,465 voters

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley

Best Book Titles

11,306 books — 7,569 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Death of a Gunfighter by Lewis B. Patten

The Big Country by Donald Hamilton

1,370 books — 1,492 voters

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Numbered Account by Christopher Reich

Aztec by Gary Jennings

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

756 books — 466 voters

American Lightning by Howard Blum

The King and the Cowboy by David Fromkin

The Irregulars by Jennet Conant

Best books of September, 2008

33 books — 39 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Dead Souls by Ian Rankin

Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott

The Flyers by Noah Adams

The Dogs of Bedlam Farm by Jon Katz

What To Read Next

20,150 books — 24,073 voters

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

Antigone by Sophocles

Medea by Euripides

Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan

182 books — 106 voters

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

American Eve by Paula Uruburu

Best Books of 2008

1,632 books — 6,784 voters

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

What Book Got You Hooked?

3,820 books — 10,269 voters

The Adirondacks by Paul Schneider

I Am Murdered by Bruce Chadwick

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

Far from Home by Lillian Schlissel

The Dogs of Bedlam Farm by Jon Katz

Books I Have Every Intention Of Reading This Year

7,776 books — 2,655 voters

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

Best Crime & Mystery Books

7,285 books — 15,427 voters

1776 by David McCullough

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

John Adams by David McCullough

Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

Best American History Books

2,111 books — 2,472 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Book Was Better Than the Movie

1,560 books — 18,702 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,790 books — 49,748 voters

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Love Story by Erich Segal

Hannibal by Thomas Harris

The Worst Books of All Time

8,177 books — 19,866 voters

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Best Books Ever

75,143 books — 278,626 voters

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