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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
88 books — 76 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
366 books — 327 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
2,676 books — 3,884 voters

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Mind
436 books — 462 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Books on Loneliness
514 books — 496 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,370 voters
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Family Saga Novels
848 books — 868 voters

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
772 books — 1,399 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
1,184 books — 2,784 voters
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Best New Orleans Books
423 books — 346 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Tales of New York City
1,681 books — 1,239 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,121 books — 1,784 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Medicine and Literature
1,880 books — 2,035 voters
The Shining by Stephen King
Darkest Books of All Time
1,302 books — 1,717 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,316 books — 4,569 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Crazy Love
480 books — 352 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,353 books — 15,942 voters
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)
556 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
379 books — 143 voters
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Mixed Race Readings
210 books — 130 voters

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Illicit Love
485 books — 336 voters
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,431 voters

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Collections of Short Stories
2,900 books — 2,043 voters
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Best Feminist Fiction
1,502 books — 2,672 voters


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