Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Christine (14 Lists)



The Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiThe Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanBlankets by Craig ThompsonPyongyang by Guy DelisleFun Home by Alison Bechdel
Best Biographical Comics
264 books — 103 voters
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,347 books — 69,143 voters

Illuminations by Walter BenjaminWhy Read the Classics? by Italo CalvinoAspects of the Novel by E.M. ForsterSeven Types of Ambiguity by William EmpsonExistentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufmann
Works of Literary Criticism
463 books — 107 voters
1984 by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeEast of Eden by John SteinbeckFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyHamlet by William Shakespeare
Books that make you think.
1,131 books — 1,107 voters

Habibi by Craig ThompsonStitches by David SmallPalestine by Joe SaccoBlankets by Craig ThompsonThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Flavorwire's Disturbingly Brilliant Graphic Novels
69 books — 54 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienHamlet by William ShakespeareCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Odyssey by Homer
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,974 books — 121,384 voters

Shakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareComplete Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose by T.S. EliotWorks of William Butler Yeats (60+ works). Inclds. The Celtic... by W.B. Yeats
Goodreads Top 100 Poems of All Time
274 books — 284 voters
1984 by George OrwellA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
8,081 books — 5,766 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Sensitive Blood-Drinkers, Sexy Bad-Boys and Gallant Scottish Noblemen... or NOT
633 books — 107 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldEast of Eden by John SteinbeckUlysses by James JoyceTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 987 voters

The Waste Land by T.S. EliotThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,889 books — 49,787 voters
The Immoralist by André GideMaurice by E.M. ForsterThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeBrokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Best Gay Fiction
2,675 books — 3,883 voters