A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Stan Gray (13 Lists)



Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Most Difficult Novels
601 books — 2,065 voters
Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam SelvaduraiRunning in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
Sri Lankan English Fiction
109 books — 156 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,935 books — 125,056 voters
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Fictitious Africa
563 books — 319 voters

Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma LarkinCatfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham
Best for Backpacking through Southeast Asia
317 books — 339 voters
Paris to the Moon by Adam GopnikA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterSuite Française by Irène NémirovskyThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriHoly Cow by Sarah Macdonald
Foreign Lands
2,383 books — 2,256 voters

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
The Economist - Books of the Year 2006
45 books — 8 voters
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Indian Books - Fiction
1,135 books — 2,497 voters

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,324 books — 5,907 voters
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
Must Read Classics
1,891 books — 4,758 voters

The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín
Non-Winners of the Man Booker
274 books — 245 voters
Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai
Best Gay Fiction
2,743 books — 3,936 voters

Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor
Retro Reads
165 books — 137 voters