Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1811095-bill">Bill</a> (37 Lists)

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M Train by Patti Smith

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg

I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories by Clifford D. Simak

The Dying Grass by William T. Vollmann

Best Books of 2015 That Are NOT Erotica

151 books — 47 voters

The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann

What should be my first book of 2016

17 books — 42 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Samuel R. Delany's literary pillars

103 books — 25 voters

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

The Children Act by Ian McEwan

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

Best Books of 2014 That Are NOT Erotica

523 books — 375 voters

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye

The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi

South Asian Fiction by Women

183 books — 163 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Emma by Jane Austen

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Best Books by Female Authors

1,362 books — 464 voters

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Harvest by Jim Crace

IMPAC 2015 Nominees

140 books — 43 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young

Darkmans by Nicola Barker

The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar

Large Experimental Books by Women

87 books — 71 voters

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Self-Help by Lorrie Moore

The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta

At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid

15 Contemporary Short Story Collections By Women You Should Really Read

15 books — 27 voters

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak

50 Novels By Women Writers On Conflict, Displacement And Resilience

50 books — 59 voters

The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection by Various

The Library of America Collection by Various

Vincent Van Gogh - The Letters by Vincent van Gogh

The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen by Jane Austen

Rising Up and Rising Down by William T. Vollmann

Books you WISH you could afford

86 books — 65 voters

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In the Woods by Tana French

The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Flavorwire's 50 Excellent Novels by Female Writers Under 50 That Everyone Should Read

50 books — 108 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Ulysses by James Joyce

The 800+ page Gorillaz

459 books — 518 voters

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

July's People by Nadine Gordimer

We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Mayika

50 Books By African Women That Everyone Should Read

53 books — 135 voters

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

1984 by George Orwell

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About

14,355 books — 14,523 voters

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

Flavorwire's 50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers

50 books — 105 voters

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

50 Works of Fiction in Translation That Every English Speaker Should Read

47 books — 35 voters

Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck

Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing

Selected Stories by Alice Munro

The Appointment by Herta Müller

Women Nobel Prize Winners We Love

114 books — 70 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

The Recognitions by William Gaddis

Underworld by Don DeLillo

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

Books to Read in Another Life

124 books — 34 voters

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart

The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector

The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić

Women Around the World

1,159 books — 431 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez

20 books — 64 voters

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

I Will Make Myself Read These!

35 books — 44 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

Sorrentino's Syllabus

60 books — 31 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Homo Faber by Max Frisch

Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Álvaro Mutis

Neustadt International Prize Laureates

76 books — 38 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,189 books — 28,381 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

It by Stephen King

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,257 books — 2,433 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

Petersburg by Andrei Bely

The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell

Rabelais' Codpiece

135 books — 143 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Tunnel by William H. Gass

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar

The Shandian Spawn

169 books — 49 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold

Black Ships by Jo Graham

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Best Feminist Science Fiction/Fantasy

695 books — 626 voters

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Hollywood by Gore Vidal

Postmodern Novels

102 books — 111 voters

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