Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/4297611-kris-mccracken">Kris McCracken</a> (71 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Kris McCracken (71 Lists)

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Property by Valerie Martin

Women's Prize for Fiction 1996 - 2005

60 books — 5 voters

Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett

The Golden Age by Joan London

The Invisible History of the Human Race by Christine Kenneally

Stella Prize 2015

12 books — 20 voters

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

Day by A.L. Kennedy

Costa/Whitbread Novel Award Winners

94 books — 89 voters

The Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh

Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone

Highways to a War by Christopher J. Koch

The Outside Lands by Hannah Kohler

Best Literature About the Vietnam War

338 books — 644 voters

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett

The Realities of War

99 books — 29 voters

Fatelessness by Imre Kertész

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Best Foreign Language (non English) Book

1,086 books — 623 voters

If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Essential Books on the Holocaust

208 books — 211 voters

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet

753 books — 1,827 voters

The Inheritors by William Golding

Best Pre-History Fiction

200 books — 378 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

Funniest Novels of All Time

1,433 books — 2,355 voters

The Glass Canoe by David Ireland

Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett

The Golden Age by Joan London

Bring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally

Breath by Tim Winton

The Miles Franklin Literary Award

80 books — 46 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin

Rape by Joyce Carol Oates

Saturday by Ian McEwan

Books that Made You Cry!

3,357 books — 7,978 voters

1984 by George Orwell

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

The Pesthouse by Jim Crace

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,920 books — 26,253 voters

Götz and Meyer by David Albahari

Best South Slavic Literature

364 books — 309 voters

The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace

Being Dead by Jim Crace

Harvest by Jim Crace

Best of Jim Crace

16 books — 8 voters

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

205 books — 728 voters

Globalization and its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz

The Social Contract, a Discourse on the Origin of Inequality,... by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Best Economics Books

451 books — 523 voters

Globalization and its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Blowback by Chalmers Johnson

The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

Rogue States by Noam Chomsky

American Foreign Policy

470 books — 281 voters

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov

The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov

Best Post WWII Soviet Lit

57 books — 74 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Best Humorous Books

4,393 books — 8,022 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,215 books — 28,369 voters

Perfume by Patrick Süskind

Best German Authors

616 books — 707 voters

The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ

After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

Another World by Pat Barker

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1,319 books — 5,868 voters

How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing

103 books — 29 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Best Books of 2006

985 books — 748 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Literary Historical Fiction

1,163 books — 1,114 voters

Property by Valerie Martin

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Orange Prize for Fiction Winners

30 books — 130 voters

The Death of Grass by John Christopher

Most Under-rated Science Fiction

2,135 books — 2,297 voters

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

Independence Day by Richard Ford

Best Books of 1995

431 books — 192 voters

London Fields by Martin Amis

The Russia House by John le Carré

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes

Best Books of 1989

379 books — 229 voters

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