The List List #2

Boy does the internet like a list. And boy, does the bookish internet love a book list. Here’s a round-up of recent bookish lists that caught our attention.

At GalleyCat, 10 Most Frequently Challenged Library Books of 2011

At The Boston Globe, 10.5 Ways Local Bookstores Beat Amazon

At Flavorpill, 10 Contemporary South Authors You Should Know

At The Financial Times, 5 Great Works of Philosophical Fiction

At Designers and Books, 100 Designers Pick 100 Books

At On the Seawall, 12 Writers Pick New and Recent Fiction

At Word and Film, 7 Movies You Didn’t Know Were Based on Books

At The Huffington Post, 9 Barbies Based on Books

At Terrible Minds, 25 Reasons I Hate Your Main Character

At Bachelors Degree Online, 9 Most Controversial Pulitzer Prize Winners 

At NPR, 5 Books About the Titanic

At BookForum, 8 Humane Books about the Homeless