Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/42887923-mike">Mike</a> (13 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Mike (13 Lists)

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

500 Essential Graphic Novels

941 books — 879 voters

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The World According to Garp by John Irving

1,576 books — 2,049 voters

John Adams by David McCullough

1776 by David McCullough

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose

Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

Best History Books

4,091 books — 4,701 voters

The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Best Detective/Mystery Series

2,367 books — 2,969 voters

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Shopgirl by Steve Martin

The Narrows by Michael Connelly

A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,207 books — 28,383 voters

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

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

Best Books of the Decade: 1930s

876 books — 1,267 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

Best Books of the Decade: 1940s

815 books — 1,160 voters

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,320 books — 2,448 voters

The New Centurions by Joseph Wambaugh

The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh

The Stand by Stephen King

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Best Books of the Decade: 1970s

1,921 books — 1,899 voters

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Best Foreign Language (non English) Book

1,095 books — 631 voters

The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Best Literary Mysteries

2,707 books — 5,131 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding Fathers

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,981 books — 125,124 voters

The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

The Aeneid by Virgil

Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan

Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Herzog by Saul Bellow

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,731 books — 13,309 voters