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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ray (12 Lists)



Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonAgainst the Day by Thomas PynchonInherent Vice by Thomas PynchonThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
12 books — 263 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,100 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,358 books — 4,697 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraCollected Fictions by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,089 books — 628 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,709 books — 13,274 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonV. by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
599 books — 2,064 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The ACTUAL 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
219 books — 322 voters
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiA Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
779 books — 3,259 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon2666 by Roberto BolañoMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books Ever
78,886 books — 293,755 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,753 books — 6,911 voters

2666 by Roberto BolañoKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,839 books — 22,447 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonUlysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,875 books — 49,843 voters