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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Joe Ahearn (24 Lists)



The Man of Bronze by Kenneth Robeson
Great Action Guy Reads
234 books — 47 voters
The Angel by Tiffany Reisz
Smut for the Smart
1,628 books — 2,045 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Best War Novels
1,720 books — 1,470 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XThe Shining by Stephen King
The 75 Books Every Man Should Read (from Esquire)
129 books — 147 voters

The Waves by Virginia WoolfVox by Nicholson BakerDog Soldiers by Robert Stone
(Not) Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
104 books — 165 voters
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Noirs
113 books — 28 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyButcher's Crossing by John WilliamsNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Son by Philipp MeyerLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Best Westerns
1,443 books — 1,633 voters
Mountain Man by Vardis FisherThe Road by Cormac McCarthyLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Manfiction
2,276 books — 555 voters

IMPLAC by Zvi ZaksThe Rising by Brian Keene
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,296 books — 3,518 voters
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
Country Noir
350 books — 313 voters

Dead West Omnibus One by Tim Marquitz
Best violent action novels
386 books — 421 voters
Among the Thugs by Bill BufordBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteBird by Bird by Anne LamottOn Writing by Stephen King
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,551 books — 3,174 voters

Literary Outlaw by Ted Morgan
Celebrity Biography
950 books — 335 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotAriel by Sylvia PlathShakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Best Poetry Books
3,048 books — 2,627 voters

The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,484 books — 16,417 voters
A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,401 books — 1,778 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick1984 by George OrwellThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Stand by Stephen King
Must-Reads Before Zombies!
127 books — 94 voters
Dune by Frank Herbert1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Stand by Stephen King
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,779 books — 25,843 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books Ever
78,965 books — 294,236 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,817 books — 49,852 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,301 books — 11,655 voters
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,396 books — 8,177 voters

The Library of America Collection by VariousStory of Civilization by Will DurantOn Modern Art by Paul Klee
Books you WISH you could afford
89 books — 66 voters
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklLolita by Vladimir NabokovSiddhartha by Hermann HesseWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyMacbeth by William Shakespeare
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,829 books — 124,579 voters