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



Complete Novels by Dashiell HammettLonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
San Francisco Bay Area Fiction
454 books — 351 voters
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong KingstonThe Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,191 books — 2,074 voters

Virginia Woolf by Quentin Bell
Best Biographies
1,725 books — 3,102 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
163 books — 229 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
114 books — 145 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
1,312 books — 1,729 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)
535 books — 1,889 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
922 books — 1,196 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
3,033 books — 2,586 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
125 books — 204 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 — 218 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
201 books — 107 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
77 books — 44 voters

What Book!? by Gary Gach
Best Anthologies
1,133 books — 782 voters
What Book!? by Gary Gach
Best Books Ever
78,031 books — 291,033 voters

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