The Big Books of Fall

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jason (25 Lists)



The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe World According to Garp by John IrvingRabbit Is Rich by John UpdikeThe Centaur by John UpdikeWhite Noise by Don DeLillo
National Book Award Winners
241 books — 209 voters
Odd John and Sirius by Olaf Stapledon
REALLY Seriously Underrated Books (100 to 500 Ratings)
1,287 books — 208 voters

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
Rabelais' Codpiece
134 books — 146 voters
Libra by Don DeLillo
Fictitious Kennedy
90 books — 23 voters

Rabbit at Rest by John UpdikeFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisSailor Song by Ken Kesey
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,128 books — 3,698 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Southern Literature
1,410 books — 2,699 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessA Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving1984 by George OrwellDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,930 books — 125,001 voters
Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I Honestly LOL'd
911 books — 1,220 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesRabbit at Rest by John UpdikeTherapy by Sebastian FitzekThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Giver by Lois Lowry
The New York Times Best Works of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years
40 books — 92 voters
Terror on the Ice by Mike Neigoff
REALLY, Really Underrated Books (Fewer than 100 Ratings)
1,580 books — 255 voters

The Dirt by Tommy LeeSlash by SlashThe Heroin Diaries by Nikki SixxFargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman
Best Books on Rock and Roll
911 books — 1,292 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Dirt by Tommy LeeA Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,204 books — 28,383 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Lord of the Flies by William GoldingA Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,164 books — 1,526 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Moon Is Down by John SteinbeckFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
815 books — 1,159 voters

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Rabbit Redux by John UpdikeThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsDeliverance by James DickeyRumble Fish by S.E. Hinton
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,921 books — 1,899 voters
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
758 books — 1,135 voters

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,320 books — 2,449 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Catch-22 by Joseph HellerCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Dark Humor
756 books — 1,757 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckCannery Row by John SteinbeckThe Pearl by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
46 books — 214 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
World War II Fiction
1,504 books — 2,280 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckRabbit, Run by John UpdikeOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckRabbit Redux by John UpdikeThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Journey Through Literary America
168 books — 237 voters
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftThe Ambassadors by Henry JamesLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceTropic of Cancer by Henry MillerOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Worst Books of All Time
8,124 books — 19,918 voters

Favorite Travel Books
2,053 books — 3,996 voters
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Vonnegut's Best
37 books — 632 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey1984 by George OrwellRabbit, Run by John UpdikeEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,878 voters