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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lee (13 Lists)



The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienGood Omens by Terry PratchettA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyHyperion by Dan Simmons
All Time Favorite Speculative Fiction
329 books — 136 voters
Storm Front by Jim ButcherNight Watch by Sergei LukyanenkoThe Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan StroudCity of Bones by Cassandra ClareGrave Witch by Kalayna Price
Best Urban Fantasy SERIES
647 books — 3,750 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardDune by Frank HerbertFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyHyperion by Dan SimmonsStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Favorite Novels Which Won the Hugo Award
89 books — 1,624 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
598 books — 2,056 voters

Wither by Lauren DeStefanoEntwined by Heather Dixon WallworkFor Nothing by Nicholas DenmonLuminous by Dawn MetcalfMy Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland
Best Book Covers 2011
743 books — 2,834 voters
Forrest Gump by Winston GroomMary Poppins by P.L. TraversThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumLegends of the Fall by Jim HarrisonThe Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,219 books — 6,121 voters

Snow Crash by Neal StephensonNeuromancer by William GibsonGhost in the Shell by Masamune ShirowDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
Best of Cyberpunk
387 books — 1,198 voters
Watchmen by Alan MooreThe Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanV for Vendetta by Alan MooreBatman by Frank MillerThe Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman
Required Reading Graphic Novels
1,175 books — 2,017 voters

City of Bones by Cassandra ClareNeverwhere by Neil GaimanDead Witch Walking by Kim HarrisonSunshine by Robin McKinley
The Best Urban Fantasy
4,290 books — 12,861 voters
1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyFoundation by Isaac AsimovSnow Crash by Neal Stephenson2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,705 books — 25,669 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankCatch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerThe Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
World War II/Holocaust Fiction & Non-fiction
990 books — 787 voters
A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnAssassination Vacation by Sarah VowellLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenManhunt by James L. SwansonThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Best American History Books
2,216 books — 2,666 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books Ever
78,137 books — 291,331 voters