Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/3472444-hal-johnson">Hal Johnson</a> (65 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Hal Johnson (65 Lists)

The Bear in the Boat by Ilse-Margret Vogel

I Can Fly by Ruth Krauss

The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone

Mister Dog by Margaret Wise Brown

The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey

Best Ever Little Golden Books

123 books — 52 voters

V. by Thomas Pynchon

Duke & Jill by Ron Kolm

Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger Jr.

A Cool Million by Nathanael West

Wingman by Daniel Pinkwater

I Love New York City

608 books — 357 voters

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware

My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf

Standalone Graphic Novels

402 books — 81 voters

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

443 books — 579 voters

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The Great Brain at the Academy by John D. Fitzgerald

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

Best Books 1972

235 books — 68 voters

The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death by Daniel Pinkwater

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong by A.J. Low

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

Best Mysteries for Young Readers

590 books — 477 voters

President Dwight's Decisions of Questions Discussed by the Se... by Timothy Dwight

A List of the Contents of the Drawers in My Study, and in Two... by James Orchard Halliwell-Phi...

The Sentimental Song Book by Julia A. Moore

The Book of Aphorisms by a Modern Pythagorean by Robert D. Macnish

Another World; or, The Fourth Dimension by Alfred Taylor Schofield

•Interesting Obscurities Unearthed On Recent Expeditions Deep Into The Forgotten Works

137 books — 15 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov

Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov

Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

Best Works of Vladimir Nabokov

31 books — 29 voters

Walker's Mammals of the World by Ronald M. Nowak

The Book of Beasts by T.H. White

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom Vol. 1 by Antonio Valle

All of the Red Panda Futa-kun by Masakazu Kobayashi

Best Animal Books

456 books — 192 voters

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona Opie

The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Anonymous

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson

New York Review Books - Classics

629 books — 892 voters

5 Novels by Daniel Pinkwater

Life Among the Savages / Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Complete Saki by Saki

Barrel Fever by David Sedaris

Best Humorous Books

4,368 books — 7,990 voters

Tamburlaine the Great by Christopher Marlowe

'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford

The Honourable Historie of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Robert Greene

Gallathea by John Lyly

Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Best non-Shakespeare Renaissance Drama

15 books — 9 voters

The Thing at the Foot of the Bed and Other Scary Tales by Maria Leach

Arrow Book of Ghost Stories by Nora Kramer

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by Hal Johnson

More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

A Book of Goblins by Alan Garner

Children's Ghost Story Collections

264 books — 45 voters

Don Juan by Lord Byron

Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

Jerusalem by William Blake

The Vision of Judgment by Lord Byron

Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving

Best Books of the Decade: 1820s

200 books — 151 voters

Njal's Saga by Anonymous

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges

Jonathan Wild by Henry Fielding

Penguin Classics

595 books — 311 voters

My New York Diary by Julie Doucet

Little Lulu on Parade by Marjorie Henderson Buell

House of Sugar by Rebecca Kraatz

My Perfect Life by Lynda Barry

Marbles in My Underpants by Renée French

Comics & Graphic Novels by Women

1,495 books — 1,367 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

West of Eden by Harry Harrison

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies

2,134 books — 12,154 voters

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson

The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank by Erma Bombeck

If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck

Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints by Phyllis Diller

Funny Women Memoirs

467 books — 1,618 voters

The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven

Gateway by Frederik Pohl

The Guardians by John Christopher

West of Eden by Harry Harrison

The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison

S&L Top-100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Titles

1,743 books — 2,228 voters

The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot

Teutonic Mythology Vol. 1 by Jacob Grimm

President Dwight's Decisions of Questions Discussed by the Se... by Timothy Dwight

Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving

Essay on the Freedom of the Will by Arthur Schopenhauer

Best Books of the Decade: 1830s

237 books — 218 voters

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

Mark the Match Boy by Horatio Alger Jr.

Biographies Contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Fame and Fortune by Horatio Alger Jr.

Best Books of the Decade: 1860s

235 books — 399 voters

Mahomet and His Successors Part 2 by Washington Irving

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The History of England by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám

Narrative of the Expedition to the China Seas and Japan, 1852... by Matthew Calbraith Perry

Best Books of the Decade: 1850s

223 books — 304 voters

The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki

Critical and Historical Essays by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Mohammed by Washington Irving

History of the Conquest of Peru by William Hickling Prescott

Best Books of the Decade: 1840s

280 books — 387 voters

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Paul the Peddler; or, The Adventures of a Young Street Merchant by Horatio Alger Jr.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Best Books of the Decade: 1870s

258 books — 347 voters

Stalky & Co by Rudyard Kipling

A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

In Search of Treasure by Horatio Alger Jr.

Best Books of the Decade: 1890s

489 books — 502 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson

Researches in Teutonic Mythology by Viktor Rydberg

Best Books of the Decade: 1880s

378 books — 414 voters

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco

A Postmodernist "Canon"

273 books — 172 voters

The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander

The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Newbery Medal Honor Books

346 books — 446 voters

The secret battle by A.P. Herbert

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Proud Tower by Barbara W. Tuchman

Bright's Passage by Josh Ritter

779 books — 600 voters

Alexander to Actium by Peter Green

Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army by Donald W. Engels

Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. by Peter Green

The History of Alexander by Quintus Curtius Rufus

Legends of Alexander the Great by Richard Stoneman

Alexander the Great

143 books — 96 voters

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