Hispanic Heritage Month 2026

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
785 books — 1,025 voters
Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell by Chas Smith
Best Books on Surfing for Surfers
120 books — 131 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 — 985 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
782 books — 507 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
239 books — 263 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
780 books — 1,845 voters
Goodbye to All That by Robert GravesStorm of Steel by Ernst JüngerMemoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
World War One Literature
226 books — 357 voters

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,837 books — 26,148 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
8,099 books — 5,872 voters
Going Down With Janis by Peggy Caserta
Best Music Books
431 books — 210 voters

Sailing Alone around the World by Joshua Slocum
Sailing Cruising
282 books — 201 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Russian Literature
501 books — 2,312 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)
538 books — 362 voters
The Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightFrom Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman
Best Middle East Nonfiction
537 books — 378 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
1,224 books — 2,826 voters
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto EcoThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,505 books — 16,705 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
829 books — 1,578 voters
Jude the Obscure by Thomas HardyDarkness at Noon by Arthur KoestlerSophie’s Choice by William Styron
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,231 books — 3,982 voters

1984 by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Dystopian Books
541 books — 1,103 voters
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Best Books About Ancient Rome
760 books — 1,151 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 — 525 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
673 books — 1,111 voters

Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman by William T. ShermanMemoirs and Selected Letters by Ulysses S. Grant
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,303 books — 2,629 voters
Going Down With Janis by Peggy Caserta
Best Beginning
728 books — 661 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
345 books — 654 voters
Sophie’s Choice by William StyronA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Best Southern Literature
1,414 books — 2,700 voters

Memoirs and Selected Letters by Ulysses S. Grant
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,467 books — 5,186 voters
Going Down With Janis by Peggy Caserta
Best Books on Rock and Roll
911 books — 1,293 voters


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