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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by nathank (9 Lists)



The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Most Influential Books
1,492 books — 5,299 voters
Absalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerGo Down, Moses by William FaulknerThe Wild Palms by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Best of William Faulkner
86 books — 65 voters

The Complete Poetry by John MiltonThe Works of William Wordsworth by William WordsworthThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert FrostCollected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
Best Poets
526 books — 401 voters
Candide by VoltaireGulliver's Travels and ''A Modest Proposal'' by Jonathan SwiftCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Satires
314 books — 537 voters

Candide by VoltaireThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Devil's Dictionary and Other Works by Ambrose BierceCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Humorous Books
4,419 books — 8,089 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom StoppardHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Metafiction
444 books — 582 voters

Mason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonV. by Thomas PynchonAgainst the Day by Thomas PynchonInherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
12 books — 265 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyMoby-Dick by Herman MelvilleMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonThe Iliad by HomerAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Size Doesn't Matter - The Long and Large Classics of Literature
303 books — 398 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonThe Iliad by HomerGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,876 books — 6,999 voters