Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/23150162-joewolfhound">JoeWolfhound</a> (20 Lists)

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Postwar by Tony Judt

The Thirty Years War by C.V. Wedgwood

Trial by Battle by Jonathan Sumption

Trial by Fire by Jonathan Sumption

Divided Houses by Jonathan Sumption

Best History Books

3,726 books — 3,765 voters

Benediction by Kent Haruf

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Queen of Scots by John Guy

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,847 books — 22,042 voters

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels by Patrick O'Brian

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,899 books — 49,786 voters

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,704 books — 6,877 voters

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction

706 books — 881 voters

And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Don Flows Home to the Sea, Vol 2 by Mikhail Sholokhov

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Greatest Russian Novels of All Time

196 books — 500 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake

London by Peter Ackroyd

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Disappointing Books

2,732 books — 4,602 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

Ulysses by James Joyce

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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

2,604 books — 13,151 voters

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie

The Golden Age Queens of Crime: Christie -- Sayers -- Marsh -- Allingham -- Wentworth (fiction)

184 books — 256 voters

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Best Antiheroes

701 books — 585 voters

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank A. Worsley

Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming

Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

Venice by Jan Morris

Have Passport Will Travel

710 books — 589 voters

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

1776 by David McCullough

Cobra II by Michael R. Gordon

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson

Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag

Best Non-fiction War Books

2,147 books — 2,419 voters

The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels by Patrick O'Brian

Rites of Passage by William Golding

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank A. Worsley

The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat

772 books — 501 voters

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

The Puzzle Palace by James Bamford

Spy Catcher by Peter Wright

The Climate of Treason by Andrew Boyle

990 books — 1,025 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Best Literary Mysteries

2,557 books — 4,630 voters

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

1,382 books — 1,510 voters

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

Best Books of the Decade: 1970s

1,955 books — 1,880 voters

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

31,764 books — 120,905 voters

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Best Books Ever

76,713 books — 285,293 voters

Ten Teacups by Carter Dickson

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux

The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe

Locked Room Mysteries

161 books — 152 voters