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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Dennis (14 Lists)



Trainspotting by Irvine WelshA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Contemporary Cult Fiction
509 books — 495 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerTrouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
779 books — 1,021 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Literary Fiction
1,622 books — 1,719 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessCandide by VoltaireSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsChess Story by Stefan Zweig
World's Greatest Novellas
736 books — 1,475 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Moviegoer by Walker PercyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education
98 books — 70 voters
The Cantos by Ezra PoundFinnegans Wake by James Joyce
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
263 books — 369 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,838 books — 124,644 voters
Inferno by Dante AlighieriThe Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2 by Dante AlighieriParadise by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 353 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
927 books — 2,390 voters
The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanWatchmen by Alan MoorePersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Best Graphic Novels
3,502 books — 6,792 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceNausea by Jean-Paul SartreCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most Difficult Novels
600 books — 2,065 voters
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Abandoned Books
1,463 books — 1,461 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceLolita by Vladimir NabokovA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Books Ever
78,962 books — 294,060 voters
The Odyssey by Homer
I'm glad someone made me read this book
11,406 books — 11,051 voters