Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/3735851-mike">Mike</a> (84 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Mike (84 Lists)

James by Percival Everett

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

Godwin by Joseph O'Neill

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

2025 Tournament of Books Longlist

83 books — 243 voters

Duty by Robert M. Gates

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

2014 New York Times Book Review

54 books — 34 voters

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

American Creation by Joseph J. Ellis

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2007 (fiction and nonfiction)

78 books — 60 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Best Southern Gothic Literature

335 books — 492 voters

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

Best Cormac McCarthy Books

17 books — 182 voters

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III

Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg

All That Is by James Salter

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013 (fiction and nonfiction)

100 books — 818 voters

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

The Human Stain by Philip Roth

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth

I Married a Communist by Philip Roth

Best Philip Roth Books

32 books — 104 voters

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum

History of Medicine

351 books — 157 voters

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman

The Dark Side by Jane Mayer

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R. Morris

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2008 (fiction and nonfiction)

62 books — 37 voters

Ghost Wars by Steve Coll

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

War Trash by Ha Jin

Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer

Chronicles by Bob Dylan

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2004 (fiction and nonfiction)

50 books — 49 voters

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2006 (fiction and nonfiction)

64 books — 52 voters

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Europe Central by William T. Vollmann

The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2005 (fiction and nonfiction)

74 books — 72 voters

Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Henry and June by Anaïs Nin

Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin

Histoire d'O | Story of O by Pauline Réage

Erotic Fiction, Literature, Art

174 books — 117 voters

How Children Succeed by Paul Tough

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

Fobbit by David Abrams

How Music Works by David Byrne

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 (fiction and nonfiction)

100 books — 505 voters

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

Which is the best book in the ASOIAF?

5 books — 156 voters

Ask the Dust by John Fante

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

The Road to Los Angeles by John Fante

Must reads for Angelenos

24 books — 29 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Alive by Piers Paul Read

Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell

Best True Survival Stories

416 books — 539 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

The New York Times Best Works of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years

40 books — 92 voters

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

All the Devils are Here by Bethany McLean

Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 (fiction and nonfiction)

100 books — 663 voters

The Ugly American by William J. Lederer

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Postwar by Tony Judt

The Quest by Daniel Yergin

The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama

FSO Reading List

118 books — 58 voters

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe

Must-Read Architecture Books (fiction and nonfiction)

249 books — 176 voters

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Best Children's Books

5,290 books — 6,657 voters

Turandot by Giacomo Puccini

Pagliacci in Full Score by Ruggero Leoncavallo

La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi

Carmen by Georges Bizet

Madame Butterfly by J. Alison James

Books about opera

165 books — 56 voters

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Best Plays Ever

859 books — 1,125 voters

It by Stephen King

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Best Horror Novels

1,955 books — 5,419 voters

Banker to the Poor by Muhammad Yunus

Common Wealth by Jeffrey D. Sachs

The Ugly American by William J. Lederer

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo

International development

225 books — 207 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Favorite Magical Realism Novels

1,295 books — 4,460 voters

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Dune by Frank Herbert

3,327 books — 9,393 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

Funniest Novels of All Time

1,404 books — 2,277 voters

Getting Even by Woody Allen

Without Feathers by Woody Allen

Side Effects by Woody Allen

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Humorous Memoirs and Non-Fiction

925 books — 1,244 voters

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