Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/12039608-jeff-hobbs">Jeff Hobbs</a> (42 Lists)

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Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

The Grindle Nightmare by Q. Patrick

Evidence of Things Seen by Elizabeth Daly

Speak Justly of the Dead by E.C.R. Lorac

Hardly a Man Is Now Alive by Herbert Brean

English Village Mysteries

200 books — 66 voters

Original Sin by P.D. James

Deception on His Mind by Elizabeth George

A Taste for Death by P.D. James

Sovereign by C.J. Sansom

Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

Best Murder Mysteries Of All-Time

968 books — 704 voters

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne du Maurier

My Antonia by Willa Cather

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Favorite Virago Modern Classics

270 books — 203 voters

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Straight Man by Richard Russo

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics

497 books — 608 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

Non-Winners of the Man Booker

274 books — 244 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Dissolution by C.J. Sansom

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Sovereign by C.J. Sansom

A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

Best Books About Tudor England

604 books — 1,616 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

The Tudors: Best Fiction and Nonfiction

107 books — 107 voters

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

Burmese Days by George Orwell

When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe

Enjoyable and Good Books of South East Asia

304 books — 159 voters

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Amadeus by Peter Shaffer

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

Jazz by Toni Morrison

Musical Fiction

303 books — 202 voters

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

443 books — 234 voters

Shōgun by James Clavell

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Hiroshima by John Hersey

The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

Best Books About Japan

516 books — 356 voters

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Tai-Pan by James Clavell

Best Novels That Take Place in China

414 books — 1,093 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Bloomsbury 100 Must-read Life-Changing Books

102 books — 31 voters

Verdict of Twelve by Raymond W. Postgate

The Bellamy Trial by Frances Noyes Hart

The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley

Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie

Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh

Julian Symons 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books

100 books — 46 voters

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

HRF Keating 100 Best Crime and Mystery Books

100 books — 47 voters

Changing Places by David Lodge

Nice Work by David Lodge

Small World by David Lodge

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Academia in Literature

136 books — 90 voters

A History of the English Language by Albert C. Baugh

The Story of English by Robert McCrum

Best Books about Linguistics

246 books — 220 voters

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

Headlong by Michael Frayn

What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt

Art & Artists in Fiction

921 books — 1,099 voters

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

The Hollow by Agatha Christie

Shape of Sand by Marjorie Eccles

The Murder of the Maharajah by H.R.F. Keating

Case for Three Detectives by Leo Bruce

Country House Mystery

132 books — 35 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Books on Books: Bookmaking, Biblioclasm, Bibliophilia

421 books — 362 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwan

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

The Winds of War by Herman Wouk

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

WWII Historic Fiction

1,352 books — 1,511 voters

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Tai-Pan by James Clavell

The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale

The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire (fiction)

310 books — 196 voters

Fragrant Harbor by John Lanchester

Tai-Pan by James Clavell

Books Set in Hong Kong

144 books — 116 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

Best South Asian Fiction

730 books — 1,889 voters

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson

Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing

1,856 books — 2,215 voters

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami

Secret Son by Laila Lalami

A House in Fez by Suzanna Clarke

Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir

White Gold by Giles Milton

Books set in, or about, Morocco

38 books — 23 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

A Very Long Engagement by Sébastien Japrisot

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

Regeneration by Pat Barker

Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear

356 books — 120 voters

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

The Best British Crime/Mystery Fiction

1,208 books — 1,254 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

Best Literary Mysteries

2,509 books — 4,484 voters

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Best Crime & Mystery Books

7,274 books — 15,389 voters

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