Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Don Hackett (49 Lists)



Proust by Samuel BeckettMarcel Proust and Deliverance from Time by Germaine BréePaintings in Proust by Eric KarpelesProust's Way by Roger ShattuckWho's Who in Proust by Patrick Alexander
Books on Proust
59 books — 24 voters
Paradise Lost by John MiltonNox by Anne CarsonThe Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria RilkeFour Quartets by T.S. EliotThe Book of Psalms, KJV by Anonymous
Best Spiritual Poetry Book
198 books — 103 voters

Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu MiaojinStrange Piece of Paradise by Terri JentzTrilogy by H.D.The Pure and the Impure by ColetteThe Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Non-American Lesbian Fiction/non-fiction by Non-American Authors
85 books — 25 voters
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Plague by Albert CamusThe Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Best French Literature
884 books — 1,574 voters

History of the Peloponnesian War by ThucydidesHomage to Catalonia by George OrwellThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanDispatches by Michael HerrThe Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
History as Literature
732 books — 536 voters
In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. ValenteMortals by Norman RushDeaf Sentence by David LodgeBlack Water Rising by Attica LockeI Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
Best Unappreciated Books
4,369 books — 2,207 voters

Reading Rilke by William H. GassIs That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Ev... by David Bellos
Translation Theory Reading List
36 books — 22 voters
Middlemarch by George EliotPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonGilead by Marilynne Robinson
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,340 books — 5,288 voters

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyIn the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaMiss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million by Nathanael WestAnimal Farm by George OrwellHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
World's Greatest Novellas
716 books — 1,448 voters
A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryMortals by Norman RushSabbath's Theater by Philip RothGilead by Marilynne Robinson
Modern-day Classics
364 books — 191 voters

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
Best Books You've Probably Never Read
618 books — 411 voters
The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliHistory of the Peloponnesian War by ThucydidesThe Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Politics
491 books — 461 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayMortals by Norman RushNetherland by Joseph O'Neill
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
531 books — 1,887 voters
Anam Cara by John O'DonohueGilead by Marilynne RobinsonTao Te Ching by Lao TzuContemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton
Books for the Contemplative Life
448 books — 212 voters

Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Abstruse Philosophy [excluding: Plato, Nietzsche, Aristotle, science, history, and religion ]
56 books — 30 voters
In the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Shorter Philosophical Novels/ Novellas/ Short Fiction
34 books — 44 voters

Chuang Tzu by ZhuangziThe Symposium by PlatoMythologies by Roland BarthesThe Plague by Albert Camus
Best Philosophy Introductions
225 books — 285 voters
The Plague by Albert CamusThree Novels by Samuel BeckettIn the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Existential Fiction
452 books — 775 voters

Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia ChildThe Joy of Cooking by Irma S. RombauerLet's Cook It Right by Adelle Davis
Best Cookbooks
1,449 books — 1,109 voters
The Iliad by HomerWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyKing Lear by William ShakespeareThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSwann’s Way by Marcel Proust
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
100 books — 1,709 voters

In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. ValenteAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela CarterIlium by Dan Simmons
Myth and Folktale Retellings
629 books — 584 voters
History of the Peloponnesian War by ThucydidesThe Oresteia by AeschylusGrief Lessons by Anne CarsonThe Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer
Best Books on Ancient Greek History and Literature
356 books — 196 voters

Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock1984 by George OrwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Darkest Books of All Time
1,302 books — 1,719 voters
The Iliad by HomerThe Oresteia by AeschylusThe Odyssey by HomerBeowulf by UnknownTales from Ovid by Ovid
Best Books About Mythology
1,394 books — 2,219 voters

In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. ValenteIn the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M. ValenteThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela CarterPalimpsest by Catherynne M. ValenteWonder Tales by Marina Warner
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,807 books — 9,149 voters
A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. FarrellThe Death of Vishnu by Manil SuriMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best South Asian Fiction
744 books — 1,906 voters

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
Best Book Titles
11,830 books — 8,127 voters
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard FariñaThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonChanging Places by David LodgeThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Campus Days
401 books — 298 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas LlosaSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,239 books — 11,435 voters
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Bad Girl by Mario Vargas LlosaThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayMortals by Norman RushParadise Lost by John Milton
Best Love Stories
5,184 books — 9,647 voters


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