The Big Books of Fall

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jason (16 Lists)



The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullersAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerDelta Wedding by Eudora WeltyEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Best Southern Books
838 books — 749 voters
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Knock-out Novelettes - Novellas
382 books — 303 voters

The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullersWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonIn the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaWe the Animals by Justin Torres
World's Greatest Novellas
739 books — 1,484 voters
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullersAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Collected Stories by Eudora WeltyThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Great Books of Southern Fiction
384 books — 443 voters

The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullersAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorSanctuary by William FaulknerReflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
Best Southern Gothic Literature
355 books — 524 voters
The King Must Die by Mary Renault
Best Books About Mythology
1,422 books — 2,295 voters

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend WarnerDon't Look Now by Daphne du MaurierYou'll Enjoy It When You Get There by Elizabeth TaylorAngel by Elizabeth TaylorThe Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
New York Review Books - Classics
633 books — 913 voters
Giovanni’s Room by James BaldwinDream Boy by Jim GrimsleyThe Swimming-Pool Library by Alan HollinghurstDancer from the Dance by Andrew HolleranThe Persian Boy by Mary Renault
Best Gay Fiction
2,743 books — 3,936 voters

The Unicorn by Iris MurdochThe Bell by Iris MurdochJackson's Dilemma by Iris MurdochThe Black Prince by Iris MurdochThe Green Knight by Iris Murdoch
Best of Iris Murdoch
35 books — 67 voters
Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
'New Music' Books
115 books — 32 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Turn of the Screw by Henry JamesThe Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The best gothic novels, ghost stories and early horror 1764-1937
377 books — 747 voters
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela CarterBellefleur by Joyce Carol OatesWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best Gothic Books of All Time
671 books — 3,634 voters

The Witching Hour by Anne RiceThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonWaking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Best Horror Novels
2,130 books — 5,582 voters
’Salem’s Lot by Stephen KingThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaDark Dance by Tanith Lee
Best Adult Vampire Books
1,862 books — 5,077 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwan
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,204 books — 28,383 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best Books Ever
79,358 books — 295,802 voters