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



The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Most Influential Books
1,461 books — 5,285 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
85 books — 64 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
522 books — 392 voters
Candide by VoltaireGulliver's Travels and ''A Modest Proposal'' by Jonathan SwiftCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Satires
303 books — 361 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 Gahan WilsonCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Humorous Books
4,337 books — 7,942 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
442 books — 579 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
10 books — 261 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
304 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
1,874 books — 6,996 voters