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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ray LaManna (22 Lists)



The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Best Catholic Books
206 books — 92 voters
The Long Loneliness by Dorothy DayThe Gift of the Magi by O. HenryTen Days that Shook the World by John Reed1919 by John Dos PassosWashington Square by Henry James
Greenwich Village
127 books — 18 voters

The Idea Factory by Jon GertnerDescartes' Error by António DamásioIn Search of Memory by Eric R. KandelThe Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Volume 1 by Leonardo da VinciThe Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
History of Science
485 books — 289 voters
History of the Peloponnesian War by ThucydidesThe Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyConfessions by Augustine of HippoWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
The Most Influential Books
1,462 books — 5,290 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Holy Bible by Anonymous
Books Every Human Being Should Read
3,004 books — 2,023 voters
The Odyssey by HomerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books Ever
77,140 books — 287,410 voters

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHiroshima by John Hersey
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,256 books — 8,072 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Quintessential
102 books — 7 voters

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite YourcenarTime and Again by Jack FinneyDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Best Historical Fiction
7,585 books — 25,852 voters
Regeneration by Pat BarkerThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,712 books — 3,653 voters

The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott PeckOn Becoming a Person by Carl R. RogersObedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram
Greatest Psychology Books
794 books — 1,332 voters
The Trip to Bountiful by Horton FooteThe Young Man from Atlanta by Horton Foote
Best Plays Ever
856 books — 1,132 voters

The Holy Bible by Anonymous1984 by George OrwellThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,055 books — 121,768 voters
La Chanson de Roland by Unknown
Best Books of the 12th Century
62 books — 151 voters

The Nibelungenlied by UnknownVita Nuova by Dante AlighieriCanticle of the Sun by Francis of Assisi
Best Books of the 13th Century
72 books — 186 voters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriInferno by Dante AlighieriThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioParadise by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 354 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,887 books — 49,790 voters
Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliJulius Caesar by William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 545 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensGreat Expectations by Charles DickensA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,720 books — 6,885 voters
Encyclopédie by VariousThe Venetian Twins / The Artful Widow / Mirandolina / The Sup... by Carlo GoldoniCandide by VoltaireThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheU.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding Fathers
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,009 voters