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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by blackcurrant_7 (75 Lists)



The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
British Countryside Literature
250 books — 19 voters
Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Faustian Literature
58 books — 36 voters

Straight Man by Richard Russo
Academic Follies
13 books — 11 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Reading Through an Archival Lens
82 books — 32 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoPossession by A.S. ByattThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Archive Porn
3 books — 4 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters

Stoner by John WilliamsPossession by A.S. ByattThe Secret History by Donna TarttThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Academia in Literature
136 books — 90 voters
The Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
Books About Librarians
456 books — 578 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
The Pursuit of Knowledge
25 books — 5 voters
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González
Books about First-Generation College Students
54 books — 12 voters

Jangar by Saglar Bougdaeva
Asian Classics
183 books — 58 voters
The Secret History by Donna TarttStoner by John WilliamsMatilda by Roald DahlDead Poets Society by N.H. KleinbaumPossession by A.S. Byatt
Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics
498 books — 605 voters

Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan SontagAn Experiment in Criticism by C.S. Lewis
Works of Literary Criticism
465 books — 108 voters
Ex Libris by Anne FadimanFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoNorthanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Best Books About Loving Books
375 books — 516 voters

Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading
1,062 books — 616 voters
Northanger Abbey by Jane AustenThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Most Comforting Books (The Literary Version of Bread Pudding)
1,296 books — 930 voters

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,568 books — 26,612 voters
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Penguin Classics
595 books — 311 voters

Matilda by Roald DahlNorthanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Fictional Bookworms
177 books — 121 voters
A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim
Can't Wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy of 2025
551 books — 899 voters

Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
2025 Adult Fantasy/Sci-fi/Speculative Releases by BIPOC Authors
77 books — 19 voters
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottThe Code Book by Simon Singh
Best Books About Mathematics
452 books — 673 voters

Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
Math Fiction (for Children and Adults)
63 books — 85 voters
The Nightblood Prince by Molly X. ChangThe Scorpion and the Night Blossom by Amélie Wen ZhaoI Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann LiangTo Kill These Monstrous Gods by Molly X. ChangThe Blood Phoenix by Amber Chen
YA Novels of 2025
595 books — 568 voters

Babel by R.F. KuangThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
Queer Dark Academia
60 books — 165 voters
Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson
Dark Academia for Bingereader
102 books — 11 voters

Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson
Dark academia | Must read
34 books — 22 voters
Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson
dark academia books & aesthetic
34 books — 3 voters

Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson
Fiction Set in a Boarding School
79 books — 95 voters
Unhallowed Halls by Lili WilkinsonBunny by Mona Awad
Dark Academia
370 books — 1,500 voters


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