The Big Books of Fall

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Paul Tupper (21 Lists)



Readings in Games and Information by Eric RasmusenThe Game's Afoot! Game Theory in Myth and Paradox by Alexander MehlmannGame Theory by Matthew Jared DevosGame Theory by Ken BinmoreRock, Paper, Scissors by Len Fisher
Game Theory for Beginners
5 books — 1 voter
New Maps of Hell by Kingsley Amis
Best Books About Genre Fiction
59 books — 15 voters

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Best Books About Nanotechnology
184 books — 662 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas AdamsLife, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Best Comedic Science Ficttion Books
642 books — 1,228 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,725 books — 13,300 voters
The Keeper of the Isis Light by Monica HughesA Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder by James De MilleObjects of Worship by Claude LalumièreHominids by Robert J. Sawyer
Best Canadian Speculative Fiction
274 books — 65 voters

The Windup Girl by Paolo BacigalupiSpin by Robert Charles WilsonReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPerdido Street Station by China Miéville
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,223 books — 9,136 voters
The Twelve by Justin Cronin
Can't Wait Books of 2012
2,509 books — 15,064 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Darkest Books of All Time
1,310 books — 1,679 voters
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate SummerscaleFor the Thrill of It by Simon Baatz
Best True Crime History Books (nonfiction)
390 books — 293 voters

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Best True Crime
1,507 books — 2,143 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,914 books — 124,882 voters

Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
Favorite Poorly Rated Books
1,406 books — 267 voters
Perdido Street Station by China MiévilleThe House on the Borderland by William Hope HodgsonAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
Cult fction
360 books — 216 voters

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Most Amusing Books Ever
35 books — 17 voters
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel ShriverThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,273 books — 11,701 voters

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Is It Just Me? Books You Disliked That Everyone Else Seems To Love
2,064 books — 2,683 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,122 books — 10,103 voters

Four Colors Suffice by Robin J. Wilson
Best Books About Mathematics
465 books — 683 voters
Gateway by Frederik PohlThe Manticore by Robertson Davies
Psychoanalysis in non-technical books (memoirs, novels, short stories, etc.)
19 books — 13 voters

A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia NasarI Want to be a Mathematician by Paul R. HalmosThe Honors Class by Ben YandellIndiscrete Thoughts by Fabrizio Palombi Gian-Carlo...The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman
Mathematical Biography
64 books — 45 voters