Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/19684623-paul">Paul</a> (34 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Paul (34 Lists)

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

New York Review Books - Classics

630 books — 911 voters

Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Perfume by Patrick Süskind

Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature

979 books — 971 voters

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

313 books — 117 voters

Cujo by Stephen King

Blindness by José Saramago

The Collector by John Fowles

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Perfume by Patrick Süskind

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,279 books — 11,731 voters

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams

As It Is In Heaven by Niall Williams

Best Irish Literature

650 books — 727 voters

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

Best Lesbian Fiction

2,163 books — 2,707 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,878 books — 7,008 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Great Victorian Romance to Daydream About

45 books — 80 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Best 19th Century Classic

121 books — 27 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Best Crime & Mystery Books

7,513 books — 16,709 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

33,045 books — 125,392 voters

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol

The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol

The Nose by Catherine Cowan

Best Russian Literature

499 books — 2,307 voters

The Assault by Harry Mulisch

Twee vrouwen by Harry Mulisch

The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch

The best Dutch literature

415 books — 387 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

Papillon by Henri Charrière

Best Books of the Decade: 1960s

1,404 books — 1,784 voters

Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes

Best Books of the 12th Century

62 books — 153 voters

Phèdre by Jean Racine

Best Books of the 17th Century

334 books — 714 voters

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Candide by Voltaire

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Best Books of the 18th Century

375 books — 1,018 voters

The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,744 books — 6,934 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education

98 books — 70 voters

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

Darkest Books of All Time

1,312 books — 1,685 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction

785 books — 1,030 voters

The Blue Fox by Sjón

Icelandic Literature - Past and Present

92 books — 62 voters

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

1984 by George Orwell

Perfume by Patrick Süskind

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Book Was Better Than the Movie

1,658 books — 18,680 voters

The World According to Garp by John Irving

Best Books 1978

235 books — 62 voters

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Money by Martin Amis

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books

100 books — 311 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Books I'd like to read in 2012

101 books — 15 voters

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

1001+ or- books to read before i die

38 books — 29 voters

The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Germinal by Émile Zola

Best French Literature

830 books — 1,582 voters

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,208 books — 28,381 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Among the Missing by Dan Chaon

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer

131 books — 232 voters

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