Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/3892208-thomas-clark">Thomas Clark</a> (26 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Thomas Clark (26 Lists)

The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nixonland by Rick Perlstein

Dark Money by Jane Mayer

American Politics

480 books — 127 voters

A View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin

Best British Political Autobiographies

45 books — 17 voters

Sabrina by Nick Drnaso

Required Reading Graphic Novels

1,175 books — 2,015 voters

You Know Me Al by Ring Lardner

Bottom of the 33rd by Dan Barry

Pafko at the Wall by Don DeLillo

Moneyball by Michael Lewis

The Natural by Bernard Malamud

Best Baseball Books

750 books — 654 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Great Short Short Books

580 books — 515 voters

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace

A Collection of Essays by George Orwell

Why I Write by George Orwell

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Best/Favorite Books of Essays

554 books — 248 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

1984 by George Orwell

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)

561 books — 545 voters

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

1984 by George Orwell

Best Transgressive Fiction

871 books — 968 voters

1984 by George Orwell

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1,568 books — 2,120 voters

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

431 books — 102 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden

Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick

Nonfiction pageturners

199 books — 75 voters

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Bottom of the 33rd by Dan Barry

Open by Andre Agassi

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Playing for Keeps by David Halberstam

Best Sports History Books

222 books — 108 voters

Moneyball by Michael Lewis

Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Open by Andre Agassi

The Blind Side by Michael Lewis

Top reads for sports fans

953 books — 768 voters

Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis

Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

Nomadland by Jessica Bruder

Best Books on Subcultures

83 books — 30 voters

Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis

It Must Be Toys, Toys, Toys

140 books — 9 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

You Read a Book about What?

4,065 books — 2,129 voters

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Stranger by Albert Camus

World's Greatest Novellas

717 books — 1,448 voters

Marvels by Kurt Busiek

Hawkeye, Volume 1 by Matt Fraction

Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1 by G. Willow Wilson

Civil War by Mark Millar

Daredevil by Frank Miller

Best of Marvel Comics

712 books — 275 voters

The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg

The Case of the Vanishing Blonde by Mark Bowden

History Published in Year: 2020

442 books — 110 voters

Watchmen by Alan Moore

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

Batman by Frank Miller

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley

The Walking Dead, Vol. 1 by Robert Kirkman

Best Graphic Novels

3,453 books — 6,773 voters

黒子のバスケ 1 [Kuroko no Basuke 1] by Tadatoshi Fujimaki

ハイキュー!! 1 [Haikyū!! 1] by Haruichi Furudate

Best Sports Manga

61 books — 128 voters

Brilliant Orange by David Winner

The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinniss

The Damned Utd by David Peace

Futebol by Alex Bellos

Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano

Best Football (Soccer) Books

516 books — 385 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

Popsugar 2020 - A Book by or about a Journalist

337 books — 188 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis

Going Clear by Lawrence Wright

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Big Short by Michael Lewis

Best Of Investigative Journalism - Nonfiction

80 books — 47 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

The Operators by Michael Hastings

Best Books by Journalists

287 books — 96 voters

But n Ben A-Go-Go by Matthew Fitt

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stane by J.K. Rowling

The Acid House by Irvine Welsh

The Eejits by Roald Dahl

The Smoky Smirr o Rain by Matthew Fitt

101 books — 4 voters