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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Robby (11 Lists)



The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick HornbyEx Libris by Anne FadimanReading Like a Writer by Francine ProseOn Literature by Umberto Eco13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading
1,069 books — 607 voters
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich BonhoefferDogmatics in Outline by Karl BarthSun of Righteousness, Arise! by Jürgen MoltmannThe Way of Jesus Christ by Jürgen MoltmannChristianity After Religion by Diana Butler Bass
Modern Theology
113 books — 10 voters

The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo TolstoyJesus for President by Shane Claiborne
Best Christian anarchist books
18 books — 24 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Experience of God by David Bentley HartThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Amazing, beautiful, escapist, maybe-you-learn-something-too novels
90 books — 25 voters

The Drama of Scripture by Craig G. BartholomewThe Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich BonhoefferThe New Oxford Annotated Bible by AnonymousThe Message Remix by Eugene H. Peterson
Books to Understand Scripture
60 books — 48 voters
Misery by Stephen KingThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonFoucault’s Pendulum by Umberto EcoThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingThe Dark Half by Stephen King
Writers Who Write About Writers
380 books — 107 voters

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellThe Art of Fiction by John GardnerOn Writing by Stephen KingBird by Bird by Anne LamottZen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
Best Books on Writing
802 books — 1,333 voters
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraVALIS by Philip K. DickExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Bibles for the Revolution
404 books — 181 voters

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline CareyAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Tor Best SFF Novels of the Decade Readers Poll (2000-2009)
18 books — 69 voters
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingThe Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Stand by Stephen King
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,825 voters

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern11/22/63 by Stephen King
Science Fiction and Fantasy Books We Can’t Wait For This Fall (2011)
34 books — 137 voters