Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1782604-james-aker">JAMES AKER</a> (38 Lists)

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Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel

Best Irish Literature

650 books — 727 voters

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Best Nonfiction Books of the 20th Century

463 books — 135 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

640 books — 98 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Medicine and Literature

2,057 books — 2,397 voters

Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Romantic Poets

114 books — 39 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

The Counter-Culture of the 1960s (fiction and nonfiction)

447 books — 199 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A Kaleidoscope of Colors

2,439 books — 213 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The 800+ page Gorillaz

459 books — 525 voters

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling

The "Great Game"

42 books — 41 voters

Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener

Return to Paradise by James A. Michener

Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne

Best Books About the South Pacific

97 books — 56 voters

We Took to the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich

Best Nature Books

1,176 books — 991 voters

The Spy Wore Red by Countess of Romanones Aline

Some of Me by Isabella Rossellini

Fair Game by Valerie Plame Wilson

Female Celebrity Books

193 books — 169 voters

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Galileo by Bertolt Brecht

Seekers of the Stars: Famous Astronomers

68 books — 31 voters

Lost Horizon by James Hilton

The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft

The Land That Time Forgot Collection by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Lost World Narratives

72 books — 56 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Dune by Frank Herbert

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

Books That Changed My World

3,291 books — 3,502 voters

Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose

Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading

1,129 books — 698 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

Both the book and the movie are good!

636 books — 323 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

Three Complete Novels by John le Carré

Best 10 Books That You've Read

831 books — 475 voters

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Roughing It by Mark Twain

A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain

Best of Mark Twain

50 books — 112 voters

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Plays by Shakespeare

16 books — 22 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean

Best Survival Stories

1,279 books — 1,862 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Holy Bible by Anonymous

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Starship Book List

2,780 books — 247 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About

15,277 books — 16,078 voters

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Modern Library 100 Best Non-fiction

100 books — 25 voters

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Earth Is Room Enough--On-Planet SF

162 books — 67 voters

Contact by Carl Sagan

Neuromancer by William Gibson

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

Origins by Richard E. Leakey

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan

SCIENCE & LITERATURE--Together at Last

250 books — 124 voters

The Rimers of Eldritch by Lanford Wilson

You Can't Take it With You by Moss Hart

The Front Page by Ben Hecht

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams

Best American Plays

255 books — 368 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean

100 Best American Authors

754 books — 618 voters

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom

The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK

1,122 books — 10,100 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Best Anti-heroes in Books

603 books — 430 voters

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