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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ivan Bakrač (21 Lists)



Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann
Most influential books under 100 pages
287 books — 976 voters
Tonio Kröger by Thomas MannMemories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García MárquezRaise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour by J.D. SalingerLord of the Flies by William GoldingDeath in Venice by Thomas Mann
World's Greatest Novellas
737 books — 1,476 voters

Imagine Me Gone by Adam HaslettThe Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
LitHub's Best Novels of the Decade (2010s)
187 books — 16 voters
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
Pulitzer Fiction Winners & Runners-Up since 2000
15 books — 8 voters

You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
Books That Made You Cry
1,609 books — 3,292 voters
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
Great Short story collections by men
87 books — 79 voters

You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Contemporary Short Story Collections
121 books — 73 voters
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Pulitzer Novel Winners and Nominees 1980-2019
99 books — 6 voters

Imagine Me Gone by Adam HaslettNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesThe Human Stain by Philip Roth
Barnes and Noble Future Classic
53 books — 7 voters
The Shipping News by Annie ProulxThe Hours by Michael CunninghamThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
100 books — 272 voters

The Sea by John BanvilleThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Booker Prize Winners
62 books — 2,002 voters
The Sea by John BanvilleThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesAmsterdam by Ian McEwanThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Major Award-Winning Fiction Since 1990
253 books — 568 voters

You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam HaslettNine Stories by J.D. SalingerSelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaDubliners by James Joyce
Collections of Short Stories
2,938 books — 2,077 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best British and Irish Literature
1,183 books — 1,118 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,843 books — 124,673 voters
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroOn the Road by Jack KerouacAtonement by Ian McEwanYou Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam HaslettThe Sea by John Banville
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,843 books — 22,459 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,877 books — 49,844 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,755 books — 6,913 voters

Candide by VoltaireThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLes Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,011 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareL'Avare by MolièreTartuffe by MolièreParadise Lost by John MiltonDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Best Books of the 17th Century
333 books — 708 voters

Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareRichard III by William ShakespeareTitus Andronicus by William ShakespeareMuch Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
190 books — 544 voters