Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Nostromo (43 Lists)



The Killer Inside Me by Jim ThompsonThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Thin Man by Dashiell HammettThe Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
737 books — 973 voters
Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell by Chas Smith
Best Books on Surfing for Surfers
118 books — 125 voters

The Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneA Burnt-Out Case by Graham GreeneThe Human Factor by Graham Greene
Best Graham Greene novels
25 books — 202 voters
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 987 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleLord Jim by Joseph ConradThe Caine Mutiny by Herman WoukBilly Budd, Sailor by Herman MelvilleSailing Alone around the World by Joshua Slocum
Boat Books
772 books — 501 voters
With the Old Breed by Eugene B. SledgeRetribution by Max HastingsPacific Crucible by Ian W. TollNimitz by E.B. PotterThe Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer
Best Books on the Pacific War
235 books — 258 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraParadise Lost by John MiltonThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasThe Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
747 books — 1,817 voters
Goodbye to All That by Robert GravesStorm of Steel by Ernst JüngerMemoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
World War One Literature
224 books — 357 voters

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,535 books — 24,908 voters
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Nineteenth Century American List
32 books — 30 voters

Kim by Rudyard KiplingMain Street by Sinclair Lewis
Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
8,081 books — 5,773 voters
Going Down With Janis by Peggy Caserta
Best Music Books
414 books — 191 voters

Sailing Alone around the World by Joshua Slocum
Sailing Cruising
281 books — 199 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Russian Literature
514 books — 2,284 voters

Jude the Obscure by Thomas HardyA Rumor of War by Philip CaputoFields of Fire by James Webb
The obscure: Best books most haven't read (or even heard of)
537 books — 361 voters
The Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightFrom Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman
Best Middle East Nonfiction
534 books — 374 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskySteppenwolf by Hermann Hesse1984 by George OrwellThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Plague by Albert Camus
Best Philosophical Literature
1,184 books — 2,771 voters
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto EcoThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,337 books — 15,893 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Red and the Black by StendhalThe Plague by Albert Camus
Best French Literature
884 books — 1,574 voters
Jude the Obscure by Thomas HardyDarkness at Noon by Arthur KoestlerSophie’s Choice by William Styron
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,228 books — 3,920 voters

1984 by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Dystopian Books
526 books — 1,040 voters
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Best Books About Ancient Rome
738 books — 1,085 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Secret Agent by Joseph ConradGreat Expectations by Charles DickensJude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Classics Library
634 books — 522 voters
Sophie’s Choice by William StyronEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Great American Novel
672 books — 1,090 voters

Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman by William T. ShermanMemoirs and Selected Letters by Ulysses S. Grant
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,129 books — 1,975 voters
Going Down With Janis by Peggy Caserta
Best Beginning
722 books — 654 voters

Fields of Fire by James WebbThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreA Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
Best Literature About the Vietnam War
331 books — 638 voters
Sophie’s Choice by William StyronA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Best Southern Literature
1,350 books — 2,576 voters

Memoirs and Selected Letters by Ulysses S. Grant
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,285 books — 4,504 voters
Going Down With Janis by Peggy Caserta
Best Books on Rock and Roll
895 books — 1,279 voters


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