Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1198007-tait">Tait</a> (27 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Tait (27 Lists)

Eumeswil by Ernst Jünger

The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

1984 by George Orwell

Best Anarchist Fiction

103 books — 82 voters

The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen

Nog by Rudolph Wurlitzer

Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer by Kenneth Patchen

The Walking-Away World by Kenneth Patchen

843 books — 897 voters

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Best Weird Fiction Books

1,200 books — 1,091 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

1984 by George Orwell

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Best Science Fiction

3,651 books — 6,977 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Best Space Opera

1,081 books — 1,788 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

Excellent Space Opera

1,016 books — 3,643 voters

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century

1,208 books — 8,951 voters

The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen

Maldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de Lautréamont

Sleepers Awake by Kenneth Patchen

Best Surrealist Literature

263 books — 213 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Goodreads 21st Century Literature Group - Most Important Books of the 21st Century

184 books — 215 voters

The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison

Lilith by George MacDonald

Jurgen by James Branch Cabell

Pre-Tolkien Fantasy

382 books — 365 voters

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

Best Reality Warping Fiction

330 books — 170 voters

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,751 books — 25,989 voters

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

Blindness by José Saramago

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction

276 books — 261 voters

The Time Trilogy by Madeleine L'Engle

Jurgen by James Branch Cabell

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

Best Fantasy Books

1,681 books — 1,993 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Best Gothic Books of All Time

585 books — 3,503 voters

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,874 books — 6,997 voters

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

Ulysses by James Joyce

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Most Difficult Novels

588 books — 2,043 voters

The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar

Piano Stories by Felisberto Hernández

Lands of Memory by Felisberto Hernández

Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar

Favorite Magical Realism Novels

1,304 books — 4,519 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Dune by Frank Herbert

1984 by George Orwell

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,351 books — 24,668 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,188 books — 28,376 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Plague by Albert Camus

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Best French Literature

872 books — 1,573 voters

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar

The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso

Piano Stories by Felisberto Hernández

Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar

Cronopios and Famas by Julio Cortázar

Latin American Fiction

864 books — 1,157 voters

The Forbidden Forest by Mircea Eliade

The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Hidden Faces by Salvador Dalí

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

World War II Fiction

1,391 books — 2,020 voters

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade

Patterns in Comparative Religion by Mircea Eliade

Best Books About Mythology

1,395 books — 2,218 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

Thickest Books Ever

889 books — 2,489 voters

Little Nemo by Winsor McCay

Dreams by C.G. Jung

Dream I Tell You by Hélène Cixous

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft

The Absolute Sandman, Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman

best books concerning dreams

418 books — 171 voters

1984 by George Orwell

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Ulysses by James Joyce

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,807 books — 49,785 voters