Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/14304007-max-rohleder">Max Rohleder</a> (16 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Max Rohleder (16 Lists)

Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown

Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Novels in Verse

463 books — 805 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

The Histories by Herodotus

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

Zealot by Reza Aslan

Best History Books

4,102 books — 4,696 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

The Collected Poems by Langston Hughes

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Best African American Books

1,083 books — 1,352 voters

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint

Moonheart by Charles de Lint

The Best Urban Fantasy

4,355 books — 13,053 voters

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Imajica by Clive Barker

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,129 books — 3,697 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

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

Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,320 books — 2,448 voters

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Grendel by John Gardner

Best Books of the Decade: 1970s

1,921 books — 1,900 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Poems of Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova

Best Books of the Decade: 1960s

1,404 books — 1,784 voters

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Best Books of the Decade: 2010s

7,670 books — 14,483 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,818 books — 49,884 voters

The Doors of Stone by Patrick Rothfuss

The Ministry of Necessity by Scott Lynch

Inherit the Night by Scott Lynch

Hurry Up and Release It!!!

262 books — 3,767 voters

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Black History Month

563 books — 501 voters

The Iliad by Homer

The Odyssey by Homer

The Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown

The Oresteia by Aeschylus

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Best Books of the Ancient World

276 books — 299 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

1984 by George Orwell

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

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

16,084 books — 18,980 voters

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke

Tapping the Dream Tree by Charles de Lint

Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link

Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint

Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman

Best Fantasy Short Story Collections

526 books — 302 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,197 books — 28,383 voters