Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/3577004-shahryar">Shahryar</a> (33 Lists)

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The Giver by Lois Lowry

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The BFG by Roald Dahl

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

973 books — 956 voters

The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

What We've Read So Far In 2011

5,350 books — 1,364 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Japanese Books That Are Not Manga

255 books — 191 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1984 by George Orwell

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Ulysses by James Joyce

I Should Probably Read This Sometime...

11,289 books — 10,021 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas Frank

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,227 books — 8,065 voters

What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas Frank

The Assault on Reason by Al Gore

Best Books to Become an Informed Voter

935 books — 1,098 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul

Grimus by Salman Rushdie

Best Books in English, Non-British Author

93 books — 28 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Best Foreign Language (non English) Book

1,078 books — 623 voters

The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe

The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

Good short fiction

657 books — 392 voters

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe

Best Short Stories

1,755 books — 1,045 voters

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Best Books Ever

75,940 books — 281,850 voters

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

Stories For Book Lovers

8,331 books — 8,312 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Best Twentieth Century American Novels

299 books — 226 voters

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great American Novel

670 books — 1,089 voters

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

American Literature

505 books — 174 voters

The Collected Poems by Langston Hughes

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

My Dearest Friend by Abigail Adams

Library of America Wish List

86 books — 25 voters

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

The BFG by Roald Dahl

Favorite books from my childhood

4,413 books — 7,415 voters

Glenn Beck's Common Sense by Glenn Beck

An Inconvenient Book by Glenn Beck

Joe the Plumber by Samuel J. Wurzelbacher

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Books I Have No Intention of Reading

1,637 books — 5,996 voters

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Pulitzer Winners: Biographies & Autobiographies

121 books — 203 voters

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie

Best History Books

3,688 books — 3,725 voters

The Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman

Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Best Graphic Novels

3,456 books — 6,765 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,592 books — 13,121 voters

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert Graves

How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy

Best Books About Ancient Rome

737 books — 1,081 voters

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Best Book to Screen Interpretation

579 books — 480 voters

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Best Alternate History Novels and Stories

767 books — 1,293 voters

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Best Alternate History

358 books — 677 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Favorite Magical Realism Novels

1,302 books — 4,509 voters

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Candide by Voltaire

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Best Philosophical Literature

1,166 books — 2,724 voters

Shōgun by James Clavell

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Best Historical Fiction

7,322 books — 25,532 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,330 books — 24,582 voters

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