Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Gary (21 Lists)



Complete Novels by Dashiell HammettLonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
San Francisco Bay Area Fiction
475 books — 358 voters
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong KingstonThe Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,338 books — 2,867 voters

Virginia Woolf by Quentin Bell
Best Biographies
1,858 books — 3,304 voters
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Journey Through Literary America
166 books — 236 voters

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu SuzukiMindfulness in Plain English by Henepola GunaratanaThe Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat HanhPeace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
Best Meditation Books
122 books — 178 voters
Rigadoon by Louis-Ferdinand CélineNorth by Louis-Ferdinand CélineCastle to Castle by Louis-Ferdinand CélineMelmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert MaturinInferno by Dante Alighieri
Darkest Books of All Time
1,313 books — 1,687 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertTwelfth Night by William ShakespeareWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
551 books — 1,918 voters
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Best of Tolstoy
31 books — 445 voters

Buddhism without Beliefs by Stephen BatchelorWhat the Buddha Taught by Walpola RahulaLiving Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat HanhZen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul RepsCutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa
A Buddhist Reading List
946 books — 1,239 voters
Call Me by My True Names by Thich Nhat HanhMetamorphoses by Ovid
Goodreads Top 100 Poems of All Time
279 books — 299 voters

Call Me by My True Names by Thich Nhat Hanh
Best Poetry Books
3,119 books — 2,860 voters
Call Me by My True Names by Thich Nhat Hanh
Best poem / short story that expresses so much.
34 books — 54 voters

Ghazals of Ghalib; by Mirza Asadullah Khan GhalibThe Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation by Charles TomlinsonNineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot WeinbergerTechnicians of the Sacred by Jerome RothenbergThe Collected Songs of Cold Mountain by Hanshan
Literary translation
196 books — 20 voters
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life by Maxine Hong Kingston
Best of Epic Poetry
127 books — 218 voters

Flowers of a Moment by Ko UnSongs for Tomorrow by Ko UnTen Thousand Lives by Ko Un
Korean literature in English (fiction and nonfiction)
296 books — 219 voters
Ten Thousand Lives by Ko UnSongs for Tomorrow by Ko UnFlowers of a Moment by Ko Un
Korean Literature in Translation
29 books — 21 voters

What Book!? by Gary GachFlowers of a Moment by Ko Un
Best Spiritual Poetry Book
513 books — 131 voters
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism by Gary GachZen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul RepsCutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam TrungpaThe Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal RinpocheZen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
Buddhist Classics
78 books — 45 voters

What Book!? by Gary Gach
Best Anthologies
1,155 books — 800 voters
What Book!? by Gary Gach
Best Books Ever
80,125 books — 298,532 voters

Home by Marilynne Robinson
Orange Prize for Fiction Winners
30 books — 130 voters