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

854 books — 908 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

1,218 books — 1,152 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

3,739 books — 7,233 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Best Space Opera

1,123 books — 1,879 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

Excellent Space Opera

1,068 books — 3,773 voters

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century

1,271 books — 9,202 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

265 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

202 books — 234 voters

The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison

Lilith by George MacDonald

Jurgen by James Branch Cabell

Pre-Tolkien Fantasy

382 books — 366 voters

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

Best Reality Warping Fiction

333 books — 172 voters

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,857 books — 26,125 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

274 books — 257 voters

The Time Trilogy by Madeleine L'Engle

Jurgen by James Branch Cabell

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate by Stephen King

Best Fantasy Books

1,690 books — 1,993 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Best Gothic Books of All Time

613 books — 3,538 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

1,873 books — 6,995 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

592 books — 2,048 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

1,316 books — 4,571 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

8,552 books — 24,992 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

7,187 books — 28,366 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

884 books — 1,574 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

877 books — 1,163 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

1,401 books — 2,032 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

1,399 books — 2,222 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 — 2,487 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

433 books — 204 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

7,889 books — 49,791 voters