Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1473095-holly">Holly</a> (27 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Holly (27 Lists)

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

1984 by George Orwell

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

BURGESS' 99 BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NOVELS

99 books — 41 voters

Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

"The Sentence" Book List

100 books — 2 voters

The Breast by Philip Roth

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

My Life as a Man by Philip Roth

Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth

Best Philip Roth Books

32 books — 104 voters

Rabbit Redux by John Updike

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

Brazil by John Updike

S. by John Updike

Best of John Updike

100 books — 10 voters

The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch

The Bell by Iris Murdoch

The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch

A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

Best of Iris Murdoch

35 books — 67 voters

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Moon Palace by Paul Auster

The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster

The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster

Oracle Night by Paul Auster

Best Paul Auster Books

25 books — 118 voters

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson

Oreo by Fran Ross

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

The Tournament of Books 2016

17 books — 34 voters

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

2015 Tournament of Books Short List

17 books — 158 voters

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

Dear Life by Alice Munro

2013 Tournament of Books

18 books — 137 voters

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

2012 Tournament of Books

16 books — 243 voters

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

Next by James Hynes

Room by Emma Donoghue

2011 Tournament of Books

16 books — 117 voters

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

2010 Tournament of Books

16 books — 14 voters

The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle

The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Budding Prospects by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Best of T.C. Boyle

19 books — 21 voters

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen

Home by Marilynne Robinson

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill

2009 Tournament of Books

16 books — 6 voters

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem

2008 Tournament of Books

16 books — 9 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead

The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford

The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud

2007 Tournament of Books

16 books — 12 voters

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Accidental by Ali Smith

Veronica by Mary Gaitskill

2006 Tournament of Books

16 books — 13 voters

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck

Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

2005 Tournament of Books

16 books — 13 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Oprah's Book Club Picks

133 books — 2,209 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Vonnegut's Best

37 books — 632 voters

The World According to Garp by John Irving

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

A Widow for One Year by John Irving

Setting Free the Bears by John Irving

Best of John Irving

27 books — 346 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Best Lighthearted Literature

640 books — 578 voters

White Noise by Don DeLillo

The Body Artist by Don DeLillo

Underworld by Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo ranked

18 books — 81 voters

The Giver by Lois Lowry

1984 by George Orwell

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About

15,275 books — 16,069 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The BFG by Roald Dahl

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Favorite Comfort Reads

1,565 books — 766 voters

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins

Killing Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen

Best Books You've Never Heard Of

1,270 books — 792 voters

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

African Fiction

606 books — 434 voters