Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/13032337-alex">Alex</a> (19 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Alex (19 Lists)

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Best Young Adult Fiction

3,596 books — 6,900 voters

Literary Theory by Terry Eagleton

Testaments Betrayed by Milan Kundera

Encounter by Milan Kundera

The Outsider by Colin Wilson

All Things Shining by Hubert L. Dreyfus

Works of Literary Criticism

462 books — 105 voters

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Best Books of the Decade: 1960s

1,355 books — 1,779 voters

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 by Michel Foucault

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

Best Books of the Decade: 1970s

1,946 books — 1,876 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

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

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Redwall by Brian Jacques

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,256 books — 2,429 voters

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,140 books — 3,673 voters

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,202 books — 28,370 voters

Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

1984 by George Orwell

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus

Best books for humanities degree

408 books — 93 voters

Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

442 books — 577 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

1984 by George Orwell

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

31,330 books — 119,112 voters

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Othello by William Shakespeare

Best Books of the 17th Century

325 books — 699 voters

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

Best Books of the 18th Century

375 books — 1,005 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,704 books — 6,862 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Falling Man by Don DeLillo

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,852 books — 21,820 voters

Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus

Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

Best World Philosophy Book

953 books — 1,421 voters

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Stranger by Albert Camus

1984 by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

Best Philosophical Literature

1,147 books — 2,742 voters

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Fall by Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus

Notebooks 1951-1959 by Albert Camus

All about Camus

43 books — 78 voters

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

1984 by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Plague by Albert Camus

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,788 books — 49,756 voters

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Best Books Ever

75,419 books — 280,124 voters