Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/21725228-ben">Ben</a> (28 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ben (28 Lists)

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

Magical Realism

459 books — 681 voters

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Can't Wait Science Fiction/Fantasy of 2019

599 books — 1,724 voters

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Contemporary Short Story Collections

125 books — 75 voters

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Favorite Contemporary Books by Female Authors

60 books — 40 voters

Saga, Volume 9 by Brian K. Vaughan

2019 Hugo Awards - Best Graphic Story

33 books — 46 voters

Saga, Volume 9 by Brian K. Vaughan

Great Graphic Novels (released in) 2018

239 books — 121 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Magic Realism Novels

179 books — 154 voters

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Best Books of the 18th Century

375 books — 1,018 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Best Books of the 17th Century

334 books — 714 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,320 books — 2,450 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Best Books of the Decade: 1950s

1,166 books — 1,526 voters

Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić

254 books — 250 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Let's Shake It Up A Bit

976 books — 613 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Best Humor Writing

892 books — 1,002 voters

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

Excellent Space Opera

1,151 books — 3,992 voters

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky

World's Greatest Novellas

739 books — 1,480 voters

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol

Collected Stories by Vladimir Nabokov

Best Short Stories

1,784 books — 1,118 voters

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,851 books — 27,056 voters

Life by Georges Perec

A Void by Georges Perec

Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau

Strangely constructed, alternative, different styles of novel

46 books — 14 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski

Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić

Books with Innovative Book Design / Structure

308 books — 555 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov

Despair by Vladimir Nabokov

Best Works of Vladimir Nabokov

31 books — 29 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Favorite Magical Realism Novels

1,385 books — 4,694 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century

1,235 books — 9,197 voters

Shōgun by James Clavell

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Roots by Alex Haley

Burr by Gore Vidal

Best Historical Fiction

8,300 books — 27,349 voters

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

1,314 books — 3,602 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,740 books — 13,306 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Ulysses by James Joyce

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Best Books Ever

79,824 books — 297,339 voters

The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,898 books — 26,229 voters