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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Justin (27 Lists)



The Power Broker by Robert A. CaroSteve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Best Biographies
1,743 books — 3,183 voters
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorDistant Star by Roberto Bolaño
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 180 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
523 books — 2,304 voters
The Peregrine by J.A. BakerThus Were Their Faces by Silvina OcampoFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Rider on the White Horse by Theodor StormThe Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Better Than Food Books
210 books — 41 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesNotes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Weirdest Books Ever
1,184 books — 1,195 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
12 books — 265 voters

Austerlitz by W.G. SebaldThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Goodreads 21st Century Literature Group - Most Important Books of the 21st Century
203 books — 233 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Booker Prize Winners
73 books — 2,016 voters

Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Best of Philip K. Dick
95 books — 411 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareOthello by William ShakespeareThe Tempest by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
106 books — 1,246 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLolita by Vladimir NabokovTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Most Difficult Novels
599 books — 2,061 voters
Watchmen by Alan MooreBone by Jeff Smith
Best Graphic Novels
3,457 books — 6,778 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,290 books — 11,633 voters
Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time
416 books — 439 voters

Night by Elie Wiesel
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,264 books — 8,126 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Postmodern Novels
101 books — 110 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Favorite Travel Books
2,049 books — 3,960 voters
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4.3 and Above
3,133 books — 479 voters

The Holy Bible by Anonymous
The Best Books You Will Never Read... EVER
52 books — 43 voters
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward AlbeeHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeThe Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee
Best Plays Ever
856 books — 1,134 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Bildungsroman book
368 books — 330 voters
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,876 books — 6,999 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasUlysses by James JoyceWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
761 books — 1,836 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,550 books — 123,931 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerUlysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,702 books — 13,225 voters
The Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Complete Works by William Shakespeare
The Most Influential Books
1,492 books — 5,299 voters

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Books with short chapters
139 books — 76 voters