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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Chris (19 Lists)



Christopher and His Kind by Christopher IsherwoodPalimpsest by Gore VidalIt's Not Over by Michelangelo SignorileBecoming a Man by Paul Monette50 Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read by Richard Canning
Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction
837 books — 492 voters
It's Not Over by Michelangelo SignorileIt Gets Better by Dan Savage
Fighting Homophobia
72 books — 33 voters

The Yellow Birds by Kevin PowersRedeployment by Phil Klay
Iraq/Afghanistan War Fiction
55 books — 117 voters
Hunger by Knut HamsunGrowth of the Soil by Knut HamsunGiants in the Earth by O.E. RølvaagOut Stealing Horses by Per PettersonPan by Knut Hamsun
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,222 books — 1,247 voters

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineThe Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 180 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceV. by Thomas Pynchon
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
260 books — 364 voters

Godless by Ann CoulterHow to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann CoulterIf Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann CoulterSlander by Ann CoulterThe Way Things Ought to Be by Rush Limbaugh
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,639 books — 5,992 voters
Christian Nation by Frederic C. RichThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Smart Apocalyptic and Dystopian Fiction
537 books — 737 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Most Difficult Novels
598 books — 2,056 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Notable Novels by Italian Authors
279 books — 232 voters

Forbidden Colors by Yukio MishimaConfessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
Gay Asian Books
115 books — 86 voters
The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonA Book of Memories by Péter NádasMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Big Fat Fiction - Best of the Heavyweights
292 books — 156 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Opening Sentence
220 books — 151 voters
Forbidden Colors by Yukio MishimaConfessions of a Mask by Yukio MishimaThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio MishimaSpring Snow by Yukio MishimaThe Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima
The Best of Yukio Mishima
23 books — 76 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonThe Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward AbbeyDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
1,092 books — 1,240 voters
Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyOf Wolves and Men by Barry LopezMy First Summer in the Sierra by John MuirSilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Best Nature Books
1,161 books — 810 voters

Death in Venice by Thomas MannGiovanni’s Room by James BaldwinOur Lady of the Flowers by Jean GenetIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustThe Immoralist by André Gide
Publishing Triangle 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Books
100 books — 13 voters
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
Yellowest Books Ever
1,815 books — 584 voters

Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil BartlettGiovanni’s Room by James BaldwinCall Me By Your Name by André AcimanThe Persian Boy by Mary RenaultA Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
Best Gay Fiction
2,697 books — 3,901 voters