The Big Books of Fall

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



Ulysses by James JoyceEndgame by Samuel BeckettWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Tin Drum by Günter GrassMother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,826 books — 49,874 voters
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald DurrellThe Past Is Myself by Christabel BielenbergIn Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Foreign Lands
2,381 books — 2,268 voters

Beowulf by Seamus HeaneyLe Morte d'Arthur by Thomas MaloryThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain PoetThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Best British and Irish Literature
1,184 books — 1,119 voters
Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Raj Quartet by Paul ScottThe Painter of Signs by R.K. NarayanThe Perfect Murder by H.R.F. Keating
India
1,034 books — 893 voters

Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. JamesDracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
The best gothic novels, ghost stories and early horror 1764-1937
376 books — 744 voters
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry PratchettOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
Great Cat Books
1,609 books — 1,134 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwanMephisto by Klaus MannRichard III by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William Shakespeare
Evil Inside
469 books — 190 voters
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. ChestertonThe Three Sisters by Anton ChekhovMan and Superman by George Bernard ShawThe Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
480 books — 866 voters

Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-FournierThe Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert TressellThe Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. ChestertonOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseySong of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Read Them Twice...At Least
14,442 books — 12,210 voters
On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
Best Russian Literature
501 books — 2,311 voters

Crash by J.G. BallardA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyPerfume by Patrick SüskindThe Tin Drum by Günter Grass
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,272 books — 11,689 voters
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Best Beginning
728 books — 659 voters

Gloriana's Torch by Patricia FinneyDoctor Syn on the High Seas by Russell Thorndike
Nautical Novels
439 books — 336 voters
Endgame by Samuel BeckettSwastika Night by Katharine Burdekin
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,090 books — 26,899 voters

Slander by Ann CoulterIf Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann CoulterThe Way Things Ought to Be by Rush LimbaughTreason by Ann CoulterHigh Crimes and Misdemeanors by Ann Coulter
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,641 books — 5,997 voters
PASSIONATE SHEPHERDERS by Maureen DuffyRosa Luxemburg by Paul Frölich
Female Biographies
1,279 books — 448 voters

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom StoppardAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SterneFlaubert's Parrot by Julian BarnesCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Metafiction
446 books — 584 voters
Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony BurgessA Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony BurgessFlaubert's Parrot by Julian BarnesChristoferus or Tom Kyd's Revenge by Robin ChapmanThe Late Mr. Shakespeare by Robert Nye
Authors in Historical Fiction
194 books — 117 voters

The Oxford Shakespeare. The Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerOedipus Rex by SophoclesBeowulf by Seamus Heaney
Best European Literature
829 books — 308 voters
Gloriana's Torch by Patricia FinneyUnicorn's Blood by Patricia FinneyFiredrake's Eye by Patricia FinneyThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoI, Claudius by Robert Graves
Best Historical Fiction
8,147 books — 27,047 voters

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerDoomsday Book by Connie WillisThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioThe Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph BédierBeowulf by Seamus Heaney
Best Middle Ages Books
1,316 books — 1,920 voters
The Dark Is Rising by Susan CooperThe Neverending Story by Michael EndeThe Crystal Cave by Mary StewartThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Fantasy of the 70s
145 books — 311 voters

Black and Blue by Ian RankinDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter MosleyThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoRatking by Michael Dibdin
Detective Fiction
1,247 books — 1,146 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.1984 by George Orwell
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,812 books — 26,040 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Books You Could Not Put Down
12,150 books — 8,286 voters
Unicorn's Blood by Patricia Finney
Best Unappreciated Books
4,375 books — 2,303 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwan
Abandoned Books
1,463 books — 1,467 voters
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Best Books Ever
79,135 books — 295,080 voters