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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ty Charap (23 Lists)



1984 by George Orwell
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,039 books — 26,781 voters
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Historical Fiction
8,038 books — 26,712 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The 800+ page Gorillaz
459 books — 518 voters
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,878 books — 7,000 voters

From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Best War Novels
1,720 books — 1,471 voters
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,222 books — 1,670 voters

1984 by George Orwell
Best Left-Texts
680 books — 371 voters
Apocalypse Culture by Adam Parfrey
Feral House & Amok Books
159 books — 55 voters

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 353 voters
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Extreme Classics: National Geographic's 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time
101 books — 264 voters

Sorcerer's Apprentice by Tahir Shah
Best Travel Writing
326 books — 252 voters
Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda
Jeff Buckley's Bookshelf
158 books — 41 voters

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century
123 books — 144 voters
Anarchism and Education by Judith Suissa
Recommended Political Reads
434 books — 141 voters

The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,425 books — 5,058 voters
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Pulitzer Winners: General Non-fiction
87 books — 361 voters

Expect Resistance by CrimethInc. Workers' Collec...
Politics and Direct action
51 books — 11 voters
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Socialist Classics
424 books — 337 voters

Anarchism by Pyotr Kropotkin
Anarchist books
480 books — 383 voters
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,337 books — 8,175 voters

Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,381 books — 1,640 voters
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Foreign Policy's Top 100 Public Intellectuals (2008)
85 books — 45 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Best Progressive Reads
1,077 books — 734 voters