Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/2504568-deirdre">Deirdre</a> (28 Lists)

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

Ulysses by James Joyce

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,878 books — 49,834 voters

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

The Past Is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

2,382 books — 2,263 voters

Beowulf by Unknown

Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain Poet

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

Best British and Irish Literature

1,174 books — 1,114 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott

The Painter of Signs by R.K. Narayan

The Perfect Murder by H.R.F. Keating

1,035 books — 885 voters

Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The 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

369 books — 742 voters

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot

Great Cat Books

1,604 books — 969 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan

Mephisto by Klaus Mann

Richard III by William Shakespeare

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

469 books — 190 voters

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw

The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton

Best Books of the Decade: 1900s

483 books — 859 voters

Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Read Them Twice...At Least

14,348 books — 11,958 voters

On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev

Best Russian Literature

524 books — 2,304 voters

Crash by J.G. Ballard

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Perfume by Patrick Süskind

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,292 books — 11,640 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison

724 books — 656 voters

Gloriana's Torch by Patricia Finney

Doctor Syn on the High Seas by Russell Thorndike

Nautical Novels

435 books — 332 voters

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

4,000 books — 26,664 voters

Slander by Ann Coulter

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter

The Way Things Ought to Be by Rush Limbaugh

Treason by Ann Coulter

High Crimes and Misdemeanors by Ann Coulter

Books I Have No Intention of Reading

1,639 books — 5,991 voters

PASSIONATE SHEPHERDERS by Maureen Duffy

Rosa Luxemburg by Paul Frölich

Female Biographies

1,268 books — 429 voters

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

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

Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

444 books — 582 voters

Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess

A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess

Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

Christoferus or Tom Kyd's Revenge by Robin Chapman

The Late Mr. Shakespeare by Robert Nye

Authors in Historical Fiction

188 books — 106 voters

The Oxford Shakespeare. The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

The Odyssey by Homer

The Iliad by Homer

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

Beowulf by Unknown

Best European Literature

828 books — 307 voters

Gloriana's Torch by Patricia Finney

Unicorn's Blood by Patricia Finney

Firedrake's Eye by Patricia Finney

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Best Historical Fiction

7,930 books — 26,367 voters

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier

Beowulf by Unknown

Best Middle Ages Books

1,304 books — 1,821 voters

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin

Best Fantasy of the 70s

145 books — 309 voters

Black and Blue by Ian Rankin

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Ratking by Michael Dibdin

Detective Fiction

1,239 books — 1,140 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

1984 by George Orwell

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,735 books — 25,626 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Books You Could Not Put Down

12,064 books — 8,237 voters

Unicorn's Blood by Patricia Finney

Best Unappreciated Books

4,391 books — 2,298 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Abandoned Books

1,465 books — 1,462 voters

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Best Books Ever

78,413 books — 292,261 voters