Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1583409-lindsay">Lindsay</a> (48 Lists)

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The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn by Algis Budrys

They Fly at Çiron by Samuel R. Delany

Fantasy/Science Fiction Books About Winged Humans/Flying Humans

127 books — 42 voters

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Suburban Fiction

127 books — 80 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

21 books — 18 voters

Amazon by Barbara G. Walker

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

Zenobia by Haley Elizabeth Garwood

Amazons, Valkyries, and Warrior Women

698 books — 537 voters

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

Best Books of 2008

1,647 books — 6,768 voters

Beowulf by Unknown

The Song of Roland by Unknown

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain Poet

Arthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes

Best Medieval Literature

166 books — 134 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Best Books of the Decade: 1950s

1,163 books — 1,518 voters

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Best Books of the Decade: 1890s

496 books — 504 voters

The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Walking through Fire by Nawal El Saadawi

Essential Non-Fiction Reading Re: Human Rights

624 books — 432 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels

99 books — 951 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Best of Banned and Challenged Books

219 books — 283 voters

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Books That Exceeded Your Expectations

15,719 books — 17,941 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

books with compelling young narrators

222 books — 177 voters

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart

Boomsday by Christopher Buckley

Books that Make you Laugh

3,550 books — 5,133 voters

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Test of the Twins by Margaret Weis

Rooting for the Bad Guy

686 books — 1,482 voters

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Othello by William Shakespeare

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Special Topics in Calamity Physics Reading List

36 books — 35 voters

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Books that Made You Cry!

3,367 books — 7,994 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Top Feminist Books

174 books — 115 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

I'm glad someone made me read this book

11,406 books — 11,024 voters

The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

War Against the Weak by Edwin Black

In the Name of Science by Andrew Goliszek

The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone

Disturbing Truths

553 books — 353 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Beowulf by Unknown

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories by Victor Pelevin

Assigned Books That Became Favorites

74 books — 39 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

1984 by George Orwell

The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)

562 books — 546 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Best Existential Fiction

458 books — 782 voters

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Books that Changed the Way You View Life

10,597 books — 5,855 voters

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

Alternadad by Neal Pollack

Talking 'Bout My Generation...

582 books — 445 voters

The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Best Feminist Science Fiction/Fantasy

709 books — 662 voters

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

The Great American Novel

671 books — 1,101 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

Fantasy - Best Character Set

110 books — 108 voters

The Women's Room by Marilyn French

Shōgun by James Clavell

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Best Books of the Decade: 1970s

1,922 books — 1,891 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,206 books — 28,375 voters

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