Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/126934-don-hackett">Don Hackett</a> (49 Lists)

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

Proust by Samuel Beckett

Marcel Proust and Deliverance from Time by Germaine Brée

Paintings in Proust by Eric Karpeles

Proust's Way by Roger Shattuck

Who's Who in Proust by Patrick Alexander

Books on Proust

59 books — 24 voters

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Nox by Anne Carson

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke

Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

The Book of Psalms, KJV by Anonymous

Best Spiritual Poetry Book

507 books — 118 voters

Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin

Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz

Trilogy by H.D.

The Pure and the Impure by Colette

The 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 Proust

Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

Best French Literature

867 books — 1,578 voters

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Dispatches by Michael Herr

The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

History as Literature

751 books — 653 voters

In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente

Mortals by Norman Rush

Deaf Sentence by David Lodge

Black Water Rising by Attica Locke

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

Best Unappreciated Books

4,382 books — 2,298 voters

Reading Rilke by William H. Gass

Is 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 Eliot

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Best Woman-Authored Books

8,923 books — 6,583 voters

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

Miss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million by Nathanael West

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

World's Greatest Novellas

736 books — 1,475 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Mortals by Norman Rush

Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Modern-day Classics

365 books — 196 voters

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

Best Books You've Probably Never Read

641 books — 507 voters

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

516 books — 642 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Mortals by Norman Rush

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill

Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)

540 books — 1,912 voters

Anam Cara by John O'Donohue

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton

Books for the Contemplative Life

465 books — 260 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 Kafka

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

Shorter Philosophical Novels/ Novellas/ Short Fiction

36 books — 47 voters

Chuang Tzu by Zhuangzi

The Symposium by Plato

Mythologies by Roland Barthes

The Plague by Albert Camus

Best Philosophy Introductions

233 books — 355 voters

The Plague by Albert Camus

Three Novels by Samuel Beckett

In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Best Existential Fiction

458 books — 782 voters

Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child

The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer

Let's Cook It Right by Adelle Davis

1,468 books — 1,127 voters

The Iliad by Homer

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

King Lear by William Shakespeare

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List

100 books — 1,708 voters

In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Ilium by Dan Simmons

Myth and Folktale Retellings

630 books — 586 voters

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The Oresteia by Aeschylus

Grief Lessons by Anne Carson

The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer

Best Books on Ancient Greek History and Literature

364 books — 202 voters

Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock

1984 by George Orwell

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Darkest Books of All Time

1,314 books — 1,736 voters

The Iliad by Homer

The Oresteia by Aeschylus

The Odyssey by Homer

Beowulf by Unknown

Tales from Ovid by Ovid

Best Books About Mythology

1,406 books — 2,237 voters

In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente

In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M. Valente

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente

Wonder Tales by Marina Warner

The Best Fairytales and Retellings

2,855 books — 9,218 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell

The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Best South Asian Fiction

765 books — 1,933 voters

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins

Best Book Titles

12,312 books — 8,683 voters

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Changing Places by David Lodge

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

403 books — 300 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,301 books — 11,670 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Mortals by Norman Rush

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Best Love Stories

5,267 books — 9,832 voters

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