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



Now and on Earth by Jim ThompsonThe Alcoholics by Jim ThompsonWild Town by Jim ThompsonThe Transgressors by Jim ThompsonThe Kill-Off by Jim Thompson
Best Jim Thompson Novels
31 books — 22 voters
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,881 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonSula by Toni MorrisonMoses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston
The ZORA Canon: The 100 greatest books ever written by African American women
100 books — 206 voters
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood AndersonComplete Stories by Dorothy ParkerThe Thurber Carnival by James ThurberNine Stories by J.D. SalingerGood-Bye by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Best Short Story Collections
1,552 books — 856 voters

The Prophet by Kahlil GibranThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
100 Must Read Life Changing Books
207 books — 151 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Killer Inside Me by Jim ThompsonMacbeth by William Shakespeare
Madness Real and Imagined
64 books — 110 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaThe Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund FreudThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Books I Must Read
49 books — 15 voters
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Dead by James JoyceThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOthello by William ShakespeareThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Good books to use for the A Level English Lit essay (UK)
101 books — 23 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Best by African Authors
407 books — 222 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Westerns
1,382 books — 1,511 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouBorderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
Books That Opened My Eyes
58 books — 8 voters
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel SilversteinSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Books You Must Read!
11,673 books — 7,541 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,232 books — 3,916 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Cat in the Hat by Dr. SeussI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan1984 by George Orwell
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,686 voters

Watchmen by Alan MooreThe Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanFables, Vol. 1 by Bill WillinghamAlan's War by Emmanuel GuibertJoker by Brian Azzarello
Required Reading Graphic Novels
1,174 books — 2,015 voters
The Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichTally's Corner by Elliot Liebow
Sociology Books
558 books — 417 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,873 books — 6,997 voters
Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XDead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Literature of Social Change
434 books — 315 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Out in the Cold
298 books — 127 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Best Books Ever
76,789 books — 285,717 voters