Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1281951-amyss">Amyss</a> (18 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Amyss (18 Lists)

A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

12,344 books — 8,173 voters

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Disappointing Books

2,775 books — 4,668 voters

The Ice-Shirt by William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann

20 books — 22 voters

Salt by Mark Kurlansky

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,415 books — 8,187 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

SantaLand Diaries by David Sedaris

Barrel Fever by David Sedaris

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

Read Them Twice...At Least

14,443 books — 12,191 voters

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Best Gonzo Books

26 books — 37 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About

15,219 books — 15,903 voters

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

The Worst Books of All Time

8,117 books — 19,908 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,837 books — 22,500 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Thickest Books Ever

893 books — 2,492 voters

Salt by Mark Kurlansky

Must Read Non-Fiction

5,432 books — 5,155 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,715 books — 13,293 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,133 books — 3,695 voters

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

Best Historical Fiction

8,130 books — 26,940 voters

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Books that Made You Cry!

3,367 books — 7,999 voters

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Best Books Ever

79,078 books — 294,804 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Louis de Bernières Box Set of 3 books by Louis Berniéres

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,816 books — 49,868 voters

Utopia by Thomas More

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

4,080 books — 26,881 voters