A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Mick Scheinin (20 Lists)



The Code of the Woosters by P.G. WodehouseThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav HašekKim by Rudyard KiplingThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeBatman by Frank Miller
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,885 voters
The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer
Best Books Ever
79,432 books — 296,140 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryI, Claudius by Robert GravesThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasThe Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Best Historical Fiction
8,237 books — 27,168 voters
Maus I by Art Spiegelman
Biography and Memoirs that are BETTER than Fiction
2,672 books — 3,671 voters

Njal's Saga by AnonymousMoominpappa at Sea by Tove JanssonThe Dwarf by Pär LagerkvistThe Unknown Soldier by Väinö LinnaSeven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,229 books — 1,254 voters
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréFuneral in Berlin by Len DeightonThe Looking Glass War by John le CarréThe Ipcress File by Len DeightonA Small Town in Germany by John le Carré
The Best Cold War Novels
45 books — 50 voters

1421 by Gavin Menzies
Worst historical non-fiction
43 books — 46 voters
The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim PotokThe Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 to 10,000 ratings)
1,976 books — 277 voters

The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
Books You Wish More People Knew About
17,472 books — 10,327 voters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Stories For Book Lovers
8,519 books — 9,049 voters

Death's Men by Denis Winter
British Military History
149 books — 19 voters
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Ancient Warfare
48 books — 14 voters

Death's Men by Denis Winter
Military History of the First World War
311 books — 124 voters
Dispatches by Michael HerrA Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
Vietnam War Books
220 books — 134 voters

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeThe Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanStorm of Steel by Ernst JüngerDispatches by Michael HerrAmong the Thugs by Bill Buford
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,414 books — 8,208 voters
Dispatches by Michael HerrStorm of Steel by Ernst JüngerA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanA Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce CattonStalingrad by Antony Beevor
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,264 books — 2,621 voters

Watchmen by Alan MooreThe Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanBatman by Frank MillerY by Brian K. VaughanFables, Vol. 1 by Bill Willingham
Best Graphic Novels
3,518 books — 6,822 voters
Watchmen by Alan MooreThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradJ.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. TolkienThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,948 books — 125,087 voters