Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1895570-jim">Jim</a> (224 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jim (224 Lists)

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The Best Book I Read Last Year

19 books — 7 voters

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Best Horror Novels

2,136 books — 5,536 voters

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green

The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey

Memoirs of Madness

312 books — 406 voters

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The King Must Die by Mary Renault

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning

A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Best Literary Trilogies

267 books — 163 voters

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara

Rebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da Cunha

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

South America - History and Culture

362 books — 131 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Novels of Domestic Life

424 books — 140 voters

The Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Steven Runciman

Peace Be Upon You by Zachary Karabell

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

A History Of The Crusades 3 Volume Set by Steven Runciman

The Ottoman Centuries by John Patrick Douglas Balfour

Islam and the West: 700 to 1700

102 books — 23 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

Field of Blood by Denise Mina

A Taste for Death by P.D. James

Fearless Females

783 books — 935 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

I Picked It Up Because of the Title

7,940 books — 2,084 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Best War Novels

1,720 books — 1,470 voters

Shakespeare of London by Marchette Gaylord Chute

Shakespearean Tragedy by A.C. Bradley

Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess

Coleridge on Shakespeare by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us by Caroline Frances Eleanor Sp...

Best Books About Shakespeare

280 books — 170 voters

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

Dust and Ashes by Anatoly Rybakov

Fear by Anatoly Rybakov

Children of the Arbat by Anatoly Rybakov

The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge

Stalin's Purges of the 1930s

53 books — 19 voters

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Henry V by William Shakespeare

The Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Steven Runciman

The Iliad by Homer

Major Battles in History and Fiction

234 books — 85 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

4,080 books — 26,879 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock

British History

814 books — 204 voters

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Most influential books under 100 pages

285 books — 978 voters

The Republic by Plato

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Upanishads by Anonymous

Best pre-20th Century Non-Fiction

141 books — 26 voters

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The World as Will and Representation, Volume I by Arthur Schopenhauer

REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS

264 books — 370 voters

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Selected Letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

Ashen Sky by Pliny the Younger

Letters on England by Voltaire

Letters To And From: Fan Mail, Hate Mail, Love Letters, Communique & Correspondence (Non-Fiction)

323 books — 81 voters

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiessen

Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Caribbean Literature

582 books — 266 voters

The Ambassadors by Henry James

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene

The Naval Treaty - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story by Arthur Conan Doyle

Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne

Diplomacy in Book Titles

154 books — 46 voters

Look Back in Anger by John Osborne

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe

Room at the Top by John Braine

The Caretaker by Harold Pinter

Britain's Angry Young Literature (50s & 60s)

28 books — 42 voters

The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell

The Complete Enderby by Anthony Burgess

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1 by Anaïs Nin

Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank

Truly Massive Biography, Real or Imagined

266 books — 42 voters

The Taste of Power by Ladislav Mňačko

Children of the Arbat by Anatoly Rybakov

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

I, Claudius/Claudius the God by Robert Graves

The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol

Corruption in High Places

454 books — 380 voters

Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges by Jorge Luis Borges

An Open Life by Joseph Campbell

Jorge Luis Borges by Beatriz Sarlo

Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens

Montcalm and Wolfe by Francis Parkman

The Last 10 Nonfiction Books I Read

2,993 books — 1,156 voters

Wren's London by Eric De Marè

The spire, William Golding by Steve Eddy

Narratives of Large Scale Engineering

105 books — 37 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Night by Elie Wiesel

Maus I by Art Spiegelman

Maus II by Art Spiegelman

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Well-Written Holocaust Books

933 books — 3,015 voters

The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell

L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy

Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the past 45 yrs

1,139 books — 1,186 voters

New Grub Street by George Gissing

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

Writers Who Write About Writers

380 books — 107 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Works of Fiction Every Philosophy Student Should Read

154 books — 114 voters

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