Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/14431535-sarah">Sarah</a> (32 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sarah (32 Lists)

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Booker Prize Winners

60 books — 1,986 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Most Difficult Novels

588 books — 2,043 voters

Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Human Acts by Han Kang

Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Korean literature in English (fiction and nonfiction)

294 books — 217 voters

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

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beloved by Toni Morrison

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Great American Novel

670 books — 1,091 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Holy Bible by Anonymous

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,607 books — 13,137 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Best Books by Female Authors

1,363 books — 466 voters

1984 by George Orwell

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Blindness by José Saramago

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,751 books — 25,989 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

1,245 books — 3,416 voters

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima

Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse

Japanese Literature

310 books — 388 voters

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima

Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse

Best Japanese Books

771 books — 3,249 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Reddit Top 200 Books - list 1

99 books — 12 voters

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Penguin Modern Classics

411 books — 486 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,188 books — 28,375 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2001 by Arthur C. Clarke

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Best Science Fiction

3,652 books — 6,979 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Commonly Loved Books I Hate

392 books — 525 voters

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Best Horror Books of the 21st Century

485 books — 1,246 voters

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Books with Innovative Book Design / Structure

304 books — 549 voters

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

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

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Flavorwire's 50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers

50 books — 105 voters

The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft

The best gothic novels, ghost stories and early horror 1764-1937

361 books — 717 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,257 books — 2,434 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

Best Books of the Decade: 1920s

764 books — 1,131 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

White Noise by Don DeLillo

V. by Thomas Pynchon

Postmodern Genius

519 books — 584 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie

The Great Depression

203 books — 79 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time

107 books — 104 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Plague by Albert Camus

Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Popular Penguins

200 books — 102 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,332 books — 24,670 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,807 books — 49,782 voters

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

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

1,376 books — 1,501 voters

An Angel at My Table by Janet Frame

The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Books By New Zealand Authors

873 books — 365 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

31,547 books — 120,171 voters

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