The Big Books of Fall

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sam (11 Lists)



Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Anticipated 2021 Literary Fiction
453 books — 594 voters
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells TowerCivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George SaundersJesus’ Son by Denis JohnsonTenth of December by George SaundersPastoralia by George Saunders
Contemporary Short Story Collections
562 books — 338 voters

Hard Rain Falling by Don CarpenterStoner by John WilliamsButcher's Crossing by John WilliamsThe Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. EdwardsWarlock by Oakley Hall
New York Review Books - Classics
633 books — 913 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyThe Son by Philipp MeyerWarlock by Oakley HallTrue Grit by Charles Portis
Literary Westerns
294 books — 409 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleEast of Eden by John SteinbeckBeloved by Toni Morrison
The Great American Novel
673 books — 1,110 voters
The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Pale King by David Foster Wallace2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Goodreads 21st Century Literature Group - Most Important Books of the 21st Century
203 books — 233 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)
563 books — 547 voters
Morte D'Urban by J.F. PowersMonsignor Quixote by Graham GreeneThe Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Novels and Short Stories about Priests
196 books — 52 voters

Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-AknerThe Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2020 Tournament of Books Long List
62 books — 55 voters
Fat City by Leonard Gardner
Best Books on Boxing and Boxers
217 books — 109 voters

White Noise by Don DeLilloUnderworld by Don DeLilloLibra by Don DeLilloEnd Zone by Don DeLilloMao II by Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo ranked
18 books — 81 voters