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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by James (33 Lists)



The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Best Left-Texts
680 books — 371 voters
1984 by George Orwell
Books for Badasses
21 books — 13 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Best Dark Humor
743 books — 1,680 voters
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Writers who committed suicide
538 books — 291 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best School Assigned Books
767 books — 2,061 voters
The Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacDesolation Angels by Jack KerouacDr. Sax by Jack KerouacAnd the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. BurroughsOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac's Best
21 books — 101 voters

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar WildeAnimal Farm by George Orwell
I Will Read Absolutely Anything S/He Writes
1,026 books — 342 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceThe Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar WildeThe Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. YeatsAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Irish Literature
635 books — 723 voters

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Vonnegut's Best
37 books — 630 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldPost Office by Charles BukowskiA Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Drunken Masters
286 books — 378 voters

The Complete Stories by Franz KafkaThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
They Died too Young
280 books — 79 voters
Ulysses by James Joyce1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,875 books — 49,842 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Unique Narrators
402 books — 349 voters
The Secret by Rhonda ByrneGodless by Ann CoulterLeft Behind by Tim LaHayeAn Inconvenient Truth by Al GoreSarah Palin by Joe Hilley
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,640 books — 5,990 voters

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe World According to Garp by John IrvingThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingThe Hotel New Hampshire by John IrvingUntil I Find You by John Irving
Best of John Irving
29 books — 349 voters
The Tommyknockers by Stephen KingCujo by Stephen KingCell by Stephen KingUnder the Dome by Stephen KingThe Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
Worst Stephen King books
63 books — 489 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeDe Profundis and Other Writings by Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Famous Literary Couples: Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas
73 books — 24 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFranny and Zooey by J.D. SalingerRaise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour by J.D. Salinger
Books that are related to J.D. Salinger in someway
50 books — 34 voters

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Detective Fiction
1,244 books — 1,143 voters
Tales of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. LovecraftThe Great God Pan by Arthur MachenThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Shining by Stephen King
The Definitive Horror Book List
1,393 books — 2,004 voters

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Best of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. LovecraftThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. CainFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Best of the Pulps
400 books — 218 voters
Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos KazantzakisThe God Delusion by Richard DawkinsThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinHaunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Books I Am Going to Hell For Reading
378 books — 415 voters

The Christmas Sweater by Glenn BeckThe Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn RandIdiots Unplugged by Glenn BeckWho's Looking Out for You? by Bill O'ReillyChurchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War" by Patrick J. Buchanan
1001 Books I'd Rather Die than Read
971 books — 864 voters
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund FreudTotem and Taboo by Sigmund FreudThree Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund FreudMoses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud
Freud and Psychoanalysis
39 books — 44 voters

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickTime Out of Joint by Philip K. DickThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Best of Philip K. Dick
95 books — 411 voters
The Complete Poems by William BlakeThe Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. YeatsThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Complete Poetry by John MiltonCollected Poems by Dylan Thomas
Best Poets
529 books — 415 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldUlysses by James JoyceThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfA Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
784 books — 1,133 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Recommended Books (Besides the Bible) Written by Christian Authors
4,510 books — 4,104 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieRights of Man by Thomas PaineThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
927 books — 2,390 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezNaked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Most Difficult Novels
600 books — 2,065 voters


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