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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Dick (24 Lists)



To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryAn American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
The Great American Novel
672 books — 1,090 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,364 books — 2,582 voters

Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. WatsonFallen by Karin SlaughterThe Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-OlsenRed Mist by Patricia Cornwell
Best Mystery/Thriller/Suspense Novels Of 2011
262 books — 983 voters
Hitler by Alan BullockFatelessness by Imre Kertész
Best WWII Fiction and Biography
698 books — 580 voters

Goodbye to All That by Robert GravesTestament of Youth by Vera Brittain
The Lost Generation
116 books — 36 voters
Inferno by Dante AlighieriThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Middle Ages Books
1,241 books — 1,726 voters

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,913 books — 26,175 voters
Herzog by Saul BellowHenderson the Rain King by Saul BellowLight in August by William Faulkner
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
381 books — 284 voters

Eye of the Needle by Ken FollettThe Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall
Edgar Award Winners
124 books — 201 voters
Personal History by Katharine GrahamTruman by David McCullough
Pulitzer Winners: Biographies & Autobiographies
121 books — 203 voters

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Pulitzer Winners: General Non-fiction
85 books — 343 voters
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
Booker Prize Winners
65 books — 1,997 voters

Replay by Ken GrimwoodTimescape by Gregory Benford
Best Time Travel Fiction
2,052 books — 5,366 voters
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryAngle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,889 books — 49,796 voters

Goodbye to All That by Robert GravesWith the Old Breed by Eugene B. SledgeA Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,187 books — 2,460 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,231 books — 122,718 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerHitler by Joachim FestEichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah ArendtSophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette DumbachThey Thought They Were Free by Milton Sanford Mayer
Classics on Nazi Germany
113 books — 77 voters
The Crowd in the French Revolution by George Rudé
The French Revolution
231 books — 294 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Strange Death of Liberal England by George DangerfieldThe Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 by Walter E. HoughtonA Life Apart by Standish MeachamVictorian Murderesses by Mary S. Hartman
British History from 1066
517 books — 130 voters
A Passage to India by E.M. ForsterThe Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
Excellent Books about India and England
280 books — 269 voters

Victorian Murderesses by Mary S. Hartman
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,840 books — 2,228 voters
With the Old Breed by Eugene B. SledgeRising Tide by John M. BarryThe Making of the English Working Class by E.P. ThompsonThe Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
Best History Books
3,841 books — 3,879 voters