2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by John Williams (12 Lists)



The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
701 books — 879 voters
Death Note, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi OhbaFullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1 by Hiromu ArakawaFruits Basket, Vol. 1 by Natsuki TakayaOuran High School Host Club, Vol. 1 by Bisco HatoriVampire Knight, Vol. 1 by Matsuri Hino
Best Manga Book Ever
1,253 books — 3,942 voters

Watchmen by Alan MooreThe Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanV for Vendetta by Alan MooreThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiThe Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman
Best Graphic Novels
3,453 books — 6,768 voters
The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienThe Recognitions by William GaddisWittgenstein’s Mistress by David MarksonJ R by William GaddisThe Tunnel by William H. Gass
Best Dalkey Archive Titles
152 books — 86 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 143 voters
The Jewel in the Crown by Paul ScottEnglish Passengers by Matthew KnealeThe Highest Tide by Jim LynchThe American by Henry JamesThe Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 to 10,000 ratings)
1,909 books — 266 voters

Collected Stories by Wallace StegnerLoving / Living / Party Going by Henry GreenGrundish and Askew by Lance CarbuncleThe Bat-Poet by Randall JarrellSanditon and The Watsons by Jane Austen
REALLY Underrated Books (Fewer than 1,000 Ratings)
3,183 books — 766 voters
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 486 voters

The Reader by Bernhard SchlinkMeasuring the World by Daniel KehlmannTschick by Wolfgang HerrndorfVisitation by Jenny ErpenbeckThree Bags Full by Leonie Swann
Young / Contemporary German Literature
77 books — 57 voters
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineSatantango by László Krasznahorkai
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
DIFFICULT BUT REWARDING
158 books — 69 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte PerkinsI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithMy Antonia by Willa Cather
Favorite Virago Modern Classics
270 books — 206 voters


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