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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by dersteppenwolf (25 Lists)



Circo Máximo by Santiago PosteguilloLos asesinos del emperador by Santiago PosteguilloRoma soy yo by Santiago PosteguilloY Julia retó a los dioses by Santiago PosteguilloYo, Julia by Santiago Posteguillo
Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the past 45 yrs
1,129 books — 1,164 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Most Difficult Novels
598 books — 2,058 voters

Stoner by John Williams
New York Review Books - Classics
633 books — 901 voters
La anomalía by Hervé Le Tellier
Prix Goncourt Laureates
64 books — 41 voters

Los asesinos del emperador by Santiago Posteguillo
Best Books About Ancient Rome
752 books — 1,106 voters
Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino by Jules VerneLa isla del tesoro by Robert Louis StevensonLos Tres Mosqueteros I by Alexandre DumasLos Tres Mosqueteros II by Alexandre DumasMiguel Strogoff by Franco Caprioli
Colección Grandes Aventuras, Editorial Oveja Negra
94 books — 1 voter

Raíces by Alex HaleyLove Story by Erich SegalÉxodo by Leon UrisAtrapado sin salida by Ken KeseyTiburón by Peter Benchley
Colección Best Sellers, Editorial Oveja Negra
93 books — 1 voter
El ruido de las cosas al caer by Juan Gabriel VásquezSalvar el fuego by Guillermo Arriaga
Premio Alfaguara. (Alfaguara Award for Novel)
29 books — 64 voters

Aura by Carlos Fuentes
Books Narrated in the Second Person
41 books — 51 voters
Historia oficial del amor by Ricardo Silva RomeroViaje a la semilla by Alejo CarpentierBetrayal by Harold Pinter
Reverse Chronology
18 books — 10 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Modern Science Nonfiction
464 books — 331 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Most Engaging Scientific Nonfiction
369 books — 285 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
History of Science
486 books — 290 voters
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Best Russian (Soviet 1917-1991) Literature
199 books — 268 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Stranger by Albert CamusCuentos esenciales by Guy de Maupassant
Best Books Ever
78,166 books — 291,504 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBlindness by José Saramago
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,985 books — 26,598 voters

The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanY by Brian K. VaughanTransmetropolitan, Vol. 1 by Warren EllisPyongyang by Guy Delisle
Best Graphic Novels
3,457 books — 6,778 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezEl país de la canela by William OspinaEl olvido que seremos by Héctor Abad FaciolinceCuentos by Tomás CarrasquillaHistoria oficial del amor by Ricardo Silva Romero
Best Colombian Literature
80 books — 91 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Latin American Fiction
893 books — 1,198 voters
El país de la canela by William Ospina
Amazing Latin American Author
7 books — 7 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganDelirio by Laura RestrepoAmerican Pastoral by Philip RothMy Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler
I Don't Understand All That Fuss
1,008 books — 2,624 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootBad Science by Ben GoldacreThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,260 books — 8,104 voters

I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonWorld War Z by Max Brooks1984 by George OrwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
This Is the End...
1,014 books — 1,607 voters
1984 by George OrwellOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,875 books — 49,819 voters

Twitter Wit by Nick DouglasMy Horizontal Life by Chelsea HandlerThe Death of Bunny Munro by Nick CaveC by Tom McCarthy
The Worst Books of All Time
8,119 books — 19,891 voters