The Big Books of Fall

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Laura (25 Lists)



The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Historical Fiction
8,190 books — 27,139 voters
Ship Breaker by Paolo BacigalupiPhase One by Rose Wynters
Best Dystopian Fiction of All Time
473 books — 1,374 voters

Generation X by Douglas CouplandThe Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 1 by Peter BaggeNeuromancer by William Gibson
Talking 'Bout My Generation...
582 books — 446 voters
The Analects by ConfuciusThe Pagan Book of Living and Dying by Starhawk
Best Holy Books
289 books — 579 voters

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Best Ending
8,147 books — 6,328 voters
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownI Am Papa Snap and These Are My Favorite No-Such Stories by Tomi UngererMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Best Children's Books
5,428 books — 7,059 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe Sea by John BanvilleI Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane CrosleyThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Disappointing Books
2,775 books — 4,671 voters
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,417 books — 8,204 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteFatal Vision by Joe McGinnissRemembering Satan by Lawrence WrightOnce Upon a Time by Harry N. MacLean
True Crime
754 books — 657 voters
King Lear by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareMoose Murders by Arthur Bicknell
Best Plays Ever
867 books — 1,135 voters

My Life and Hard Times by James ThurberMountain Man Dance Moves by McSweeney'sWithout Feathers by Woody AllenGetting Even by Woody AllenSide Effects by Woody Allen
Best Humorous Books
4,485 books — 8,334 voters
Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phan... by Luigi SerafiniThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Weirdest Books Ever
1,187 books — 1,194 voters

The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanBatman by Frank MillerBone by Jeff SmithFun Home by Alison BechdelGhost World by Daniel Clowes
Best Graphic Novels
3,517 books — 6,820 voters
Kilter by John GouldThe Stories of John Cheever by John CheeverThe Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan PoeLike You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim ShepardKnockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock
Collections of Short Stories
2,975 books — 2,094 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,122 books — 10,104 voters
Zeroville by Steve EricksonLike You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim ShepardOn Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Best Books of 2007
1,123 books — 999 voters

Collected Poems by Philip LarkinWalking to Martha's Vineyard (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Franz WrightDisfortune by Joe WenderothA Book Of Luminous Things by Czesław MiłoszCollected Poems of Donald Justice by Donald Justice
Best Poetry Books
3,076 books — 2,683 voters
The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensLetter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
Notable Atheist Books
599 books — 1,001 voters

Cloud Atlas by David MitchellNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroFun Home by Alison BechdelThe Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,204 books — 28,385 voters
The Chocolate War by Robert CormierThe Slave Dancer by Paula FoxI Am the Cheese by Robert CormierA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Best Young Adult Books
13,354 books — 80,664 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,499 books — 16,532 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books Ever
79,311 books — 295,689 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,878 voters
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. DickNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,838 books — 26,090 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckMichelle Remembers by Michelle SmithThe Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
The Worst Books of All Time
8,124 books — 19,919 voters