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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Stephen (14 Lists)



Sun and Shadow by Åke Edwardson
My Home Town
140 books — 26 voters
John of Ford by UnknownHandmaids of the Lord by Joan M. PetersonThe Way of Simplicity by Esther de WaalThe Steps of Humility and Pride by Bernard of ClairvauxBernard Of Clairvaux by Michael Casey Ocso
Cistercian
39 books — 3 voters

Faceless Killers by Henning MankellThe Lighthouse by P.D. JamesPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Favorite Comfort Reads
1,547 books — 763 voters
The American Civil War by John Keegan
Best American History Books
2,104 books — 2,464 voters

King Lear by William ShakespeareThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee WilliamsMedea by EuripidesNo Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul SartreThe Crucible by Arthur Miller
Best Play Ever
520 books — 457 voters
The Hot Zone by Richard PrestonThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonThe Plague by Albert CamusOutbreak by Robin CookA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
Books for a Pandemic
699 books — 577 voters

The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,273 books — 15,407 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
510 books — 2,272 voters

The Golden Epistle by William of Saint-ThierryInterior Castle by Teresa de ÁvilaDark Night of the Soul by John of the CrossStory of a Soul by Thérèse of LisieuxMy Life with the Saints by James Martin
Roman Catholic Reading
583 books — 273 voters
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Best Books Ever
74,927 books — 277,929 voters

The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Shack by William Paul YoungThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,636 books — 6,000 voters
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Shining by Stephen KingThe Vampire Lestat by Anne RiceCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Books You Could Not Put Down
11,166 books — 7,422 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeSiddhartha by Hermann HesseA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,789 books — 49,738 voters
The Worst Books of All Time
8,178 books — 19,864 voters