Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/40440612-solaris">Solaris</a> (28 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Solaris (28 Lists)

Minima Moralia by Theodor W. Adorno

The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade

Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida

Acts of Resistance by Pierre Bourdieu

My Last Sigh by Luis Buñuel

Counterpunch 100 Best Non-Fiction Books (in Translation) of the 20th Century … and Beyond (Part One)

144 books — 22 voters

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Long Way Round by Ewan McGregor

Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The River of Doubt by Candice Millard

Favorite Travel Books

2,021 books — 3,941 voters

1984 by George Orwell

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Perfume by Patrick Süskind

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,206 books — 11,303 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

Greatest Eastern European Classics

440 books — 258 voters

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám

The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous

Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang

Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart by Enheduanna

183 books — 58 voters

Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer

Specters of Marx by Jacques Derrida

The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 by Michel Foucault

The History of Sexuality, Volume 2 by Michel Foucault

The History of Sexuality, Volume 3 by Michel Foucault

Mapping Critical Theory

107 books — 41 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,188 books — 28,375 voters

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature

973 books — 956 voters

The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Smoke of Distant Fires by Eduardo Chirinos

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

Most Poetic Book Titles

2,064 books — 892 voters

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,228 books — 8,061 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Recommended Historical Fiction

3,652 books — 3,592 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Around the World One Book from Each Country

1,068 books — 971 voters

Learning from Asian Philosophy by Joel J. Kupperman

'The Heathen in his Blindness...' by S.N. Balagangadhara

r/EasternPhilosophy Recommended Reading

38 books — 12 voters

The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C.G. Jung

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

Metamorphoses by Ovid

Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Best Books About Mythology

1,395 books — 2,218 voters

Sunshine Soup; Nourishing the Global Soul by Jo Parfitt

The Emotionally Resilient Expat by Linda A. Janssen

Sleeping People Lie by Jae De Wylde

Best Books for Expatriates

85 books — 80 voters

Yearning by bell hooks

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Black Sexual Politics by Patricia Hill Collins

Zami by Audre Lorde

This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. Moraga

Black Feminism, Womanism, & Critical Race Feminism

44 books — 27 voters

If I Should Speak by Umm Zakiyyah

Painted Hands by Jennifer Zobair

Islamic Fiction

77 books — 105 voters

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan

Led by Faith by Immaculée Ilibagiza

Inspirational Stories of Refugees & Outsiders

41 books — 45 voters

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński

The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz

Africa (fiction and nonfiction)

1,762 books — 1,642 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Well-Written Holocaust Books

891 books — 2,886 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Best Female Lead Characters

4,847 books — 5,890 voters

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Bone Black by bell hooks

Memoirs by Women

3,016 books — 3,031 voters

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Twilight in Italy by D.H. Lawrence

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Life in a Foreign Country

800 books — 396 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Best Books Ever

76,282 books — 283,739 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Native Son by Richard Wright

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

Best African American Books

1,043 books — 1,138 voters

Zami by Audre Lorde

Gender Outlaws by Kate Bornstein

Of Woman Born by Adrienne Rich

The Age of Scientific Sexism by Mari Ruti

Fifty Shades of Feminism by Lisa Appignanesi

Women & Gender Studies

1,461 books — 546 voters

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooks

Feminist Theory by bell hooks

Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

Gender Outlaws by Kate Bornstein

Feminism & Gender & Stuff

80 books — 34 voters

Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Meaning of Freedom by Angela Y. Davis

Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson

Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said

Books for and About Activists

327 books — 307 voters