Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/3872364-robert">Robert</a> (15 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Robert (15 Lists)

1984 by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

4,090 books — 26,898 voters

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

Best Plays Ever

866 books — 1,136 voters

Castles of Steel by Robert K. Massie

Absolute Zero And The Conquest Of Cold by Tom Shachtman

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing

1,886 books — 2,276 voters

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato

Candide by Voltaire

Incognito by David Eagleman

Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson

Books That Are Companions For Life

30 books — 21 voters

Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer

Incognito by David Eagleman

Plutocrats by Chrystia Freeland

Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant

Castles of Steel by Robert K. Massie

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,415 books — 8,192 voters

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Best Books Ever

79,116 books — 295,027 voters

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Smoky the Cow Horse by Will James

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Best Young Adult Books

13,341 books — 80,624 voters

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Rose by Martin Cruz Smith

December 6 by Martin Cruz Smith

5,008 books — 6,564 voters

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Alice in Wonderland by Jane Carruth

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Best Children's Fantasy

1,023 books — 1,264 voters

Castles of Steel by Robert K. Massie

Dreadnought by Robert K. Massie

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson

Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen E. Ambrose

History as Literature

751 books — 651 voters

Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie

Best Russian History Books

590 books — 426 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Favorite books from my childhood

4,506 books — 7,729 voters

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Candide by Voltaire

Beowulf by Seamus Heaney

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Four Great Tragedies by William Shakespeare

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,881 books — 124,795 voters

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Thickest Books Ever

893 books — 2,492 voters

Dubliners by James Joyce

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

My Ántonia by Willa Cather

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,825 books — 49,873 voters