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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sean Glover (22 Lists)



What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki MurakamiPrison Writings by Leonard Peltier
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,266 books — 2,346 voters
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best South Asian Fiction
765 books — 1,933 voters

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Best Haruki Murakami Books
28 books — 848 voters
Prison Writings by Leonard PeltierIn the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter MatthiessenWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Books That Changed My World
3,297 books — 3,416 voters

When Memory Dies by Ambalavaner Sivanandan
Best Lesser-Known Books
1,719 books — 1,114 voters
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Funniest Novels of All Time
1,446 books — 2,411 voters

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter MatthiessenA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
2,265 books — 3,083 voters
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Most Influential Books
1,497 books — 5,309 voters

Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
Unusual, Alternative Vampires
438 books — 581 voters
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
Best Audio Books
322 books — 297 voters

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
9/11 Related
280 books — 254 voters
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
Best Books of 2008
1,647 books — 6,768 voters

Franz Kafka's The Castle by David Fishelson
Best Philosophical Literature
1,213 books — 2,914 voters
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiThe Trial by Franz KafkaHullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran DesaiA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniSnow by Orhan Pamuk
Favorite World Fiction & Literature
733 books — 434 voters

The Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Funny Thing by Wanda GágOn Beyond Zebra! by Dr. SeussMa'ii and Cousin Horned Toad by Shonto Begay
Best Children's Books
5,418 books — 7,028 voters
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThere Is No Me Without You by Melissa Fay GreeneThe Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto UrreaA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best ALA Adult Notables
142 books — 53 voters

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Booker Prize Winners
62 books — 2,002 voters
Watership Down by Richard AdamsThe Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Must Read Classics
1,887 books — 4,747 voters

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiThe Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto UrreaA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,272 books — 28,374 voters
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
Best Historical Fiction
8,038 books — 26,711 voters

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienHow the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,654 books — 18,683 voters
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiPrison Writings by Leonard PeltierThe Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto UrreaThere Is No Me Without You by Melissa Fay GreeneA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best Books Ever
79,001 books — 294,163 voters