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

4,138 books — 4,792 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

9,804 books — 22,828 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

7,801 books — 49,900 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

1,744 books — 6,937 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

786 books — 1,063 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

218 books — 507 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

2,778 books — 4,672 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

2,747 books — 13,313 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)

173 books — 258 voters

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Best Antiheroes

704 books — 610 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

718 books — 643 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

2,289 books — 2,639 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

781 books — 506 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

1,046 books — 1,128 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

2,730 books — 5,272 voters

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

1,472 books — 1,636 voters

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

Best Books of the Decade: 1970s

1,921 books — 1,899 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

33,241 books — 126,071 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

80,081 books — 298,421 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

185 books — 188 voters