Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/187043-laura">Laura</a> (25 Lists)

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

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Best Historical Fiction

7,854 books — 26,137 voters

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Phase One by Rose Wynters

Best Dystopian Fiction of All Time

460 books — 1,316 voters

Generation X by Douglas Coupland

The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 1 by Peter Bagge

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Talking 'Bout My Generation...

581 books — 444 voters

The Analects by Confucius

The Pagan Book of Living and Dying by Starhawk

Best Holy Books

284 books — 590 voters

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

8,152 books — 6,296 voters

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

I Am Papa Snap and These Are My Favorite No-Such Stories by Tomi Ungerer

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Best Children's Books

5,366 books — 6,963 voters

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Sea by John Banville

I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Disappointing Books

2,770 books — 4,607 voters

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,280 books — 8,090 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss

Remembering Satan by Lawrence Wright

Once Upon a Time by Harry N. MacLean

740 books — 624 voters

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Moose Murders by Arthur Bicknell

Best Plays Ever

856 books — 1,132 voters

My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber

Mountain Man Dance Moves by McSweeney's

Without Feathers by Woody Allen

Getting Even by Woody Allen

Side Effects by Woody Allen

Best Humorous Books

4,419 books — 8,078 voters

Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phan... by Luigi Serafini

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Weirdest Books Ever

1,184 books — 1,193 voters

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

Batman by Frank Miller

Bone by Jeff Smith

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

Best Graphic Novels

3,457 books — 6,778 voters

Kilter by John Gould

The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by John Cheever

The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

Like You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard

Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock

Collections of Short Stories

2,911 books — 2,060 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK

1,134 books — 10,101 voters

Zeroville by Steve Erickson

Like You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Best Books of 2007

1,123 books — 991 voters

Collected Poems by Philip Larkin

Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Franz Wright

Disfortune by Joe Wenderoth

A Book Of Luminous Things by Czesław Miłosz

Collected Poems of Donald Justice by Donald Justice

Best Poetry Books

3,032 books — 2,584 voters

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

Notable Atheist Books

584 books — 995 voters

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,216 books — 28,372 voters

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Best Young Adult Books

13,189 books — 80,422 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Best Crime & Mystery Books

7,440 books — 16,326 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Best Books Ever

78,127 books — 291,290 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,893 books — 49,819 voters

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,703 books — 25,645 voters

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Michelle Remembers by Michelle Smith

The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck

The Worst Books of All Time

8,112 books — 19,888 voters