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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by V Mignon (18 Lists)



The Passion of New Eve by Angela CarterTwelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Best Gender-Bending Books
613 books — 461 voters
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,375 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,434 books — 1,777 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovOn the Road by Jack KerouacEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,195 books — 1,516 voters

Watership Down by Richard AdamsThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Neverending Story by Michael EndeThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,949 books — 1,886 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Lover by Marguerite Duras
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,255 books — 2,435 voters

Alias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThe Subtle Knife by Philip PullmanThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,155 books — 3,682 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldSix Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi PirandelloThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
779 books — 1,134 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickJaws by Peter BenchleyJurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,103 voters
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Best Dark Humor
735 books — 1,644 voters

The Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyDubliners by James JoyceThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories by Franz KafkaThe Umbrella Man and Other Stories by Roald Dahl
Collections of Short Stories
2,915 books — 2,067 voters
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Best World Philosophy Book
955 books — 1,424 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Plague by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Best Philosophical Literature
1,204 books — 2,843 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Most Difficult Novels
599 books — 2,062 voters

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiFables, Vol. 1 by Bill WillinghamSafe Area Goražde by Joe Sacco
Best Graphic Novels
3,457 books — 6,777 voters
Sabriel by Garth NixA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Heroine in a Fantasy Book
1,492 books — 1,799 voters