Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/4142965-rob-smith">Rob Smith</a> (70 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Rob Smith (70 Lists)

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman

What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas Frank

Best Progressive Reads

1,070 books — 726 voters

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Let's Shake It Up A Bit

977 books — 614 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Best Literary Fiction, 700+ pages

106 books — 99 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Ulysses by James Joyce

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Best Experimental Books Ever

1,122 books — 1,824 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Complete Works of Shakespeare [38 plays, 4 poems, sonnets] by William Shakespeare

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

If I Were Stranded On a Desert Island...

1,203 books — 431 voters

The City & the City by China Miéville

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Best 21st Century SF

151 books — 86 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

100 Best American Authors

754 books — 616 voters

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

The Major Works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry and Designs by William Blake

944 books — 495 voters

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake

Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Best Poetry Books

3,032 books — 2,598 voters

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis

Weirdest Books Ever

1,184 books — 1,193 voters

You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe

Books From High School That I Want To Re-Read

13 books — 6 voters

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Reddit Recommendations

581 books — 762 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

World War II Fiction

1,444 books — 2,112 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Best Known Unfinished Novels/Series

62 books — 81 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Best Russian Literature

521 books — 2,296 voters

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Best One Day- Easy- Reads

214 books — 57 voters

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,280 books — 8,095 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The 800+ page Gorillaz

459 books — 517 voters

The Holy Bible by Anonymous

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,281 books — 11,619 voters

The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

On Evolution - Love It Or Hate It

201 books — 105 voters

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Junky by William S. Burroughs

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs

1,576 books — 2,134 voters

From Hell by Alan Moore

Best Graphic Novels and Comic Books

994 books — 602 voters

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins

The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins

Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only

1,929 books — 3,626 voters

Post Office by Charles Bukowski

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

John Barleycorn by Jack London

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

Drunken Masters

281 books — 376 voters

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century

3,120 books — 10,080 voters

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Beowulf by Unknown

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

1984 by George Orwell

Must Read Classics

1,876 books — 4,709 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Odyssey by Homer

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,875 books — 7,000 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Most Difficult Novels

598 books — 2,056 voters

Embassytown by China Miéville

Ghost Story by Jim Butcher

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

What's the Book You Can't Wait to Read This Summer?

14,439 books — 15,270 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Ubik by Philip K. Dick

Now That's REALLY Freakin' Weird...

715 books — 554 voters

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