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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Brian H. (18 Lists)



Swamp Thing, Volume 4 by Charles SouleSwamp Thing, Volume 1 by Scott SnyderBatman, Volume 1 by Scott SnyderSwamp Thing, Volume 2 by Scott SnyderAquaman, Volume 1 by Geoff Johns
The New 52
321 books — 370 voters
Bleeding Edge by Thomas PynchonMiddle C by William H. GassA Delicate Truth by John le Carré
He That Can Have Patience Can Have What He Will: Forthcoming Books for 2013
28 books — 45 voters

Bleeding Edge by Thomas PynchonTenth of December by George SaundersMiddle C by William H. Gass
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2013 Book Preview
98 books — 764 voters
The Secret Agent by Joseph ConradThe Honourable Schoolboy by John le CarréTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Third Man by Graham Greene
Espionage
1,016 books — 1,242 voters

At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'NeillGiovanni’s Room by James BaldwinMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Blackwater Lightship by Colm TóibínThe Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Best Gay Fiction
2,702 books — 3,917 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceDubliners by James JoyceThe Blackwater Lightship by Colm TóibínThe Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats
Best Irish Literature
633 books — 722 voters

King Lear by William ShakespeareThe Tempest by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareRichard II by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
106 books — 1,246 voters
Crazy '08 by Cait Murphy
Best Baseball Books
755 books — 657 voters

Maniac Magee by Jerry SpinelliThe Giver by Lois LowryNumber the Stars by Lois LowryBridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonThe Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The Most Deserving Newbery
132 books — 3,028 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Shadow Lines by Amitav GhoshMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieWhat the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh BaldwinThe Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Best Indian Fiction Books
931 books — 2,461 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceAgainst the Day by Thomas PynchonBleak House by Charles DickensOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensFinnegans Wake by James Joyce
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,876 books — 6,999 voters
The Dead by James JoyceHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradBartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
World's Greatest Novellas
733 books — 1,470 voters

V. by Thomas PynchonAgainst the Day by Thomas PynchonThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonVineland by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
12 books — 265 voters
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
American Literature at the Movies
462 books — 179 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceV. by Thomas PynchonLord Jim by Joseph ConradTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,826 voters
Bleak House by Charles DickensThe Return of the Native by Thomas HardyOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,752 books — 6,906 voters