Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/25530710-valerio">valerio</a> (20 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by valerio (20 Lists)

The Odyssey by Homer

The Iliad by Homer

The Aeneid by Virgil

Metamorphoses by Ovid

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Best of Epic Poetry

125 books — 204 voters

The Tale of the Heike by Anonymous

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata

House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata

Best Japanese Books

778 books — 3,254 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Best Russian Literature

521 books — 2,298 voters

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Aeneid by Virgil

Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca

Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto

Metamorphoses by Ovid

1,012 books — 533 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Middlemarch by George Eliot

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,750 books — 6,905 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,877 books — 49,819 voters

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison

The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake

The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Highbrow Fantasy Books

422 books — 630 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

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

Best Experimental Books Ever

1,122 books — 1,824 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

578 books — 514 voters

紫色のクオリア [Murasakiiro no Qualia] by Hisamitsu Ueo

WorldEnd by Akira Kareno

Oh! My Useless Goddess! by Natsume Akatsuki

Zaregoto, Book 1 by NisiOisiN

Ranobes - Japanese Light Novels

200 books — 172 voters

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Tale of the Heike by Anonymous

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings by Alexander Pope

37 books — 4 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Best Humorous Books

4,420 books — 8,080 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Best Action-Adventure Novels

2,662 books — 2,969 voters

Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Best Love Stories

5,237 books — 9,764 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Best Crime & Mystery Books

7,442 books — 16,338 voters

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle

Best Historical Fiction

7,868 books — 26,208 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

Best Science Fiction

3,831 books — 7,604 voters

Paradise Lost by John Milton

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

The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany

The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

Pre-Tolkien Fantasy

382 books — 367 voters

Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

486 books — 337 voters

Watchmen by Alan Moore

The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 3 by Mœbius

La ballade de la mer salée by Hugo Pratt

Fable de Venise by Hugo Pratt

LMVDM. La mia vita disegnata male by Gipi

Best Graphic Novels

3,457 books — 6,779 voters