Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1987170-shellie-layers-of-thought">Shellie (Layers of Thought)</a> (215 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Shellie (Layers of Thought) (215 Lists)

Possession by A.S. Byatt

The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist

feminist philosophy and literature

232 books — 27 voters

An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage

The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz

Just Food by James McWilliams

A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

Plenty by Alisa Smith

Locavore Reading List

70 books — 192 voters

Hungry Monkey by Matthew Amster-Burton

Delancey by Molly Wizenberg

Gastronomical Literature

61 books — 11 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

Best Environmental Books

1,063 books — 1,189 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Streets by Robert Dunbar

That Which Should Not Be by Brett J. Talley

Manhattan Grimoire by Sandy DeLuca

Dark Literature

266 books — 150 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky

Books with Unreliable Narrators

498 books — 487 voters

The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart

Shake by Eric Prum

Best Cocktail Books

94 books — 71 voters

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

The Recipe Club by Andrea Israel

Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown

Books that Cook (stories with recipes)

494 books — 78 voters

Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield

683 books — 1,348 voters

The Big Necessity by Rose George

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett

You Read a Book about What?

4,044 books — 2,068 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Willy by Robert Dunbar

Best Gothic Books of All Time

562 books — 3,463 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)

526 books — 1,889 voters

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Best Arthurian Fiction

474 books — 1,429 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Best Alternate History

351 books — 685 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

Bad Girls and Femmes Fatales

315 books — 129 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning

Books with Strong Women Characters (All Genres)

1,720 books — 767 voters

Hard Revolution by George P. Pelecanos

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction

695 books — 871 voters

Haunted Legends by Ellen Datlow

Blood and Other Cravings by Ellen Datlow

Best Horror Anthologies

451 books — 532 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Must Read Classics

1,852 books — 4,608 voters

The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway

John Saturnall's Feast by Lawrence Norfolk

The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen

Man Booker Prize Eligible 2012

151 books — 269 voters

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Afflicted Girls by Suzy Witten

Best Books Featuring Witches

747 books — 817 voters

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Great Books of Southern Fiction

379 books — 441 voters

The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Backlash by Susan Faludi

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

The Ms. Blog's Best Feminist Non-Fiction Reads: Reader's Choice

587 books — 442 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Royal Street by Suzanne Johnson

Spellwright by Blake Charlton

Magical Apprenticeships

217 books — 169 voters

Tarnished by Karina Cooper

Soulless by Gail Carriger

Steampunk/Romance

365 books — 925 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Green Darkness by Anya Seton

Historical romances with more substance than your average wallpaper setting

535 books — 863 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Other Kingdoms by Richard Matheson

The Uncertain Places by Lisa Goldstein

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak

Fantasy Books Set in Two Worlds

639 books — 630 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Derivatives of Jane Eyre

181 books — 167 voters

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist

The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya

Best European Science Fiction Books

253 books — 204 voters

Dragon in Chains by Daniel Fox

Otherland by Tad Williams

Freedom's Gate by Naomi Kritzer

China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Non-Caucasian Protagonists in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Paranormal Romance

2,480 books — 2,736 voters

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