A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Cameron Patton (10 Lists)



Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
601 books — 2,066 voters
The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. TolkienWatership Down by Richard AdamsThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Best Literary Fantasy Novels
123 books — 45 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenLooking for Alaska by John GreenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakPaper Towns by John GreenThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Young Adult Literary Fiction
111 books — 74 voters
1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodDune by Frank HerbertSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Literary Science Fiction
339 books — 251 voters

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanOutliers by Malcolm GladwellBlink by Malcolm GladwellQuiet by Susan CainPredictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Greatest Psychology Books
797 books — 1,346 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Four Jacks Annotated, Uncensored by Robert Pavchick
Best Literary Fiction
1,644 books — 1,690 voters

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldIf I Stay by Gayle FormanThe Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Best Depressing Books
429 books — 429 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,231 books — 3,982 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess1984 by George OrwellUlysses by James JoyceMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)
562 books — 546 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Best Literary Mysteries
2,708 books — 5,125 voters