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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Shashank (129 Lists)



Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelBeing and Time by Martin Heidegger
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
262 books — 366 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas HardyThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
378 books — 415 voters

The House of Mirth by Edith WhartonWhite Fang by Jack London
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
483 books — 859 voters
Broken Monsters by Lauren BeukesLocke & Key, Vol. 1 by Joe HillBlindsight by Peter WattsMy Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Best Horror Books of the 21st Century
497 books — 1,258 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareKing Henry IV, Part 1 by William ShakespeareHenry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
106 books — 1,246 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Iliad by HomerThe Aeneid by VirgilThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Best of Epic Poetry
126 books — 206 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Best Books Ever
78,330 books — 292,012 voters
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel RichardsonDream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,010 voters

Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 146 voters
Know My Name by Chanel MillerBlack Box by Shiori Itō
#MeToo Memoirs
20 books — 21 voters

Whore of New York by Liara Roux
Sex Worker Memoirs
197 books — 101 voters
Minor Characters by Joyce JohnsonGo by John Clellon HolmesOn the Road by Jack KerouacHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergBig Sur by Jack Kerouac
Beat Lit
236 books — 182 voters

Barbara by Osamu TezukaBuddha, Vol. 1 by Osamu TezukaBlack Jack, Vol. 1 by Osamu Tezuka
Seinen Manga
105 books — 38 voters
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund FreudThe Art of Loving by Erich FrommI'm OK - You're OK by Thomas A. HarrisThe Road Less Traveled by M. Scott PeckThe Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Greatest Psychology Books
794 books — 1,333 voters

Fun Home by Alison BechdelGrass by Keum Suk Gendry-KimDucks by Kate BeatonHappily Ever After & Everything In Between by Debbie Tung
Serious Graphic Novels for Adult Readers
308 books — 72 voters
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Contemporary British Novels
511 books — 408 voters

Juliet, Naked by Nick HornbyA Long Way Down by Nick HornbyAbout a Boy by Nick HornbyHow to Be Good by Nick HornbyFunny Girl by Nick Hornby
Best of Nick Hornby
47 books — 17 voters
Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesThe Sea, the Sea by Iris MurdochThe Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Booker Prize Winners
72 books — 2,015 voters

Stray Bullets, Vol. 1 by David LaphamFatale, Vol. 1 by Ed BrubakerStray Bullets by David Lapham
Crime Comics & Graphic Novels
234 books — 69 voters
Use of Weapons by Iain M. BanksSlan by A.E. van VogtGod Emperor of Dune by Frank HerbertThe Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. HamiltonXenocide by Orson Scott Card
Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century
566 books — 482 voters

Black Boy by Richard Wright
Black biography
239 books — 64 voters
Pearl S. Buck by Peter Conn
Literary biographies
483 books — 99 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingIt by Stephen King’Salem’s Lot by Stephen KingDifferent Seasons by Stephen KingThe Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
Best of Stephen King
190 books — 3,887 voters
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Best Books of the 11th Century
24 books — 112 voters

The Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinDune by Frank Patrick HerbertHyperion by Dan SimmonsStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Science Fiction
3,843 books — 7,684 voters
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,660 books — 26,686 voters

Saint Maybe by Anne TylerUse of Weapons by Iain M. BanksWaiting by Ha JinXenocide by Orson Scott CardOut by Natsuo Kirino
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,155 books — 3,684 voters
Idoru by William GibsonNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Diamond Age by Neal StephensonGhost in the Shell by Masamune ShirowMirrorshades by Bruce Sterling
Best of Cyberpunk
387 books — 1,199 voters

The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
988 books — 966 voters
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite YoungThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingAlmanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon SilkoI Hotel by Karen Tei YamashitaPilgrimage 1 by Dorothy M. Richardson
Large Experimental Books by Women
87 books — 71 voters


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