Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/142948165-just-another-english-major">Just Another English Major</a> (28 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Just Another English Major (28 Lists)

A Paste for Bones by Mike Hayes

Serial Killer Thrillers

225 books — 217 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

A Paste for Bones by Mike Hayes

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

Best Books Set in New York City

378 books — 390 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Literary fiction and mysteries involving mental illness, psychiatrists and mental hospitals

57 books — 70 voters

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

A Paste for Bones by Mike Hayes

Best Serial Killer Books

394 books — 354 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Holy Bible by Anonymous

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

31,417 books — 119,712 voters

The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous

Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia by Anonymous

Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with... by James B. Pritchard

Ancient Near East

20 books — 10 voters

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

Best Halloween Books

698 books — 727 voters

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth

Best Books of the Decade: 1960s

1,356 books — 1,779 voters

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks

Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

Best Books of the Decade: 1970s

1,946 books — 1,880 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Best Books of the Decade: 1950s

1,181 books — 1,509 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth

The Literature Of Exhaustion And The Literature Of Replenishment by John Barth

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks

The Counter-Culture of the 1960s (fiction and nonfiction)

417 books — 167 voters

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

The Devil's Hand by M.J. Hayes

Son of the Mountain by M.J. Hayes

A Long Way from Virginia by M.J. Hayes

Best Texas Historical Fiction

34 books — 29 voters

The Literature Of Exhaustion And The Literature Of Replenishment by John Barth

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

Postmodernist Fiction by Brian McHale

Postmodern Genius

508 books — 584 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

The Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright

Son of the Mountain by M.J. Hayes

Tales from the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Reject Society, Live in the Woods

96 books — 12 voters

Son of the Mountain by M.J. Hayes

American Westerns Featuring Black Cowboys and Characters

27 books — 14 voters

A Rose for Emily and Other Stories by William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Best Southern Gothic Literature

337 books — 498 voters

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

The Devil's Hand by M.J. Hayes

Son of the Mountain by M.J. Hayes

The Two Fathers of Walter Red Blanket by M.J. Hayes

Books Set in Texas

952 books — 329 voters

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Son of the Mountain by M.J. Hayes

Best Southern Books

826 books — 739 voters

The Devil's Hand by M.J. Hayes

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Best Western Thrillers

21 books — 7 voters

A Long Way from Virginia by M.J. Hayes

Best Revenge Westerns

17 books — 9 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks

Holden-esque Fiction

17 books — 10 voters

Confessions by Augustine of Hippo

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

100 Biographies & Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

1,871 books — 1,777 voters

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Animal Farm by George Orwell

1984 by George Orwell

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,736 books — 25,968 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

American Literature

505 books — 174 voters

Beowulf by Unknown

The Odyssey by Homer

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown

The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson

The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Pre-Tolkien Fantasy

382 books — 367 voters

The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

Fantasy Classics

301 books — 581 voters

Beowulf by Unknown

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown

Best Middle Ages Books

1,216 books — 1,694 voters

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Hobbit by Chuck Dixon

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Books You Must Read!

11,309 books — 7,189 voters