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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Michael Forrester (34 Lists)



Herzog by Saul Bellow
Midlife Crisis Novels
160 books — 120 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
New York Times Best Nonfiction Books
91 books — 79 voters

The Shining by Stephen King
fiction in which the writing of a book features prominently
99 books — 49 voters
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Best Bildungsroman book
367 books — 330 voters

Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'NeillA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Drunken Masters
281 books — 376 voters
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Best Gay Fiction
2,692 books — 3,896 voters

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Mind
436 books — 462 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Books on Loneliness
517 books — 498 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,370 voters
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Family Saga Novels
876 books — 886 voters

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
784 books — 1,401 voters
Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain
Eccentric Mothers
100 books — 53 voters

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Philosophical Literature
1,190 books — 2,815 voters
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Best New Orleans Books
426 books — 346 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Tales of New York City
1,710 books — 1,278 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,122 books — 1,817 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Medicine and Literature
1,957 books — 2,097 voters
The Shining by Stephen King
Darkest Books of All Time
1,304 books — 1,719 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,335 books — 4,623 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Crazy Love
481 books — 370 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,414 books — 16,249 voters
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)
560 books — 544 voters

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics
498 books — 605 voters
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
Best Irish Literature
633 books — 722 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Upper Classes
381 books — 143 voters
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Mixed Race Readings
208 books — 133 voters

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Illicit Love
486 books — 337 voters
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,256 books — 2,435 voters

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Collections of Short Stories
2,909 books — 2,054 voters
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Best Feminist Fiction
1,503 books — 2,671 voters


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