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 — 876 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 — 2,038 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

4,041 books — 4,542 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

2,344 books — 2,667 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

7,208 books — 28,380 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 — 1,266 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

814 books — 1,157 voters

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,228 books — 2,444 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

1,922 books — 1,897 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

1,090 books — 629 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

2,697 books — 5,104 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

32,852 books — 124,760 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

2,715 books — 13,292 voters