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



Herzog by Saul Bellow
Midlife Crisis Novels
159 books — 119 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
New York Times Best Nonfiction Books
84 books — 48 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
364 books — 322 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
2,648 books — 3,859 voters

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Mind
436 books — 464 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Books on Loneliness
513 books — 495 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,379 voters
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Family Saga Novels
817 books — 853 voters

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
772 books — 1,400 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
1,166 books — 2,724 voters
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Best New Orleans Books
422 books — 346 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Tales of New York City
1,506 books — 1,215 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,105 books — 1,719 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Medicine and Literature
1,838 books — 1,997 voters
The Shining by Stephen King
Darkest Books of All Time
1,275 books — 1,713 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,302 books — 4,509 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Crazy Love
480 books — 353 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,305 books — 15,557 voters
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)
561 books — 544 voters

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics
497 books — 607 voters
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
Best Irish Literature
632 books — 718 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Upper Classes
379 books — 142 voters
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Mixed Race Readings
203 books — 128 voters

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Illicit Love
482 books — 335 voters
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,434 voters

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Collections of Short Stories
2,893 books — 2,037 voters
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Best Feminist Fiction
1,504 books — 2,673 voters


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