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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ben (10 Lists)



The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellCloud Atlas by David MitchellWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe History of Love by Nicole KraussThe Damned Utd by David Peace
Best Literary Fiction of 21st Century
654 books — 312 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleThe Skin by Curzio Malaparte
Favourite WW2 Books Set in Italy
98 books — 114 voters

To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfLolita by Vladimir NabokovUlysses by James JoyceThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaUnderworld by Don DeLillo
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,824 voters
Atonement by Ian McEwanThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn Haybittle
World War II Fiction
1,452 books — 2,152 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna TarttTheft by Peter CareyThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn Haybittle
Art Fraud and Theft
228 books — 182 voters
Pale Fire by Vladimir NabokovIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe New York Trilogy by Paul AusterInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Metafiction
444 books — 582 voters

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoTime's Arrow by Martin AmisThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Let's Shake It Up A Bit
977 books — 614 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
1,500 books — 2,639 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
523 books — 2,304 voters
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
"Love" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read" List
146 books — 134 voters