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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
102 books — 768 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
1,028 books — 1,067 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
2,711 books — 3,920 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
635 books — 723 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
109 books — 1,248 voters
Crazy '08 by Cait Murphy
Best Baseball Books
760 books — 660 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
138 books — 3,057 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
937 books — 2,463 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
1,878 books — 7,000 voters
The Dead by James JoyceHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradBartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
World's Greatest Novellas
736 books — 1,475 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 — 263 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
461 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
7,876 books — 49,844 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
1,754 books — 6,913 voters