Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/44437188-david">David</a> (27 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by David (27 Lists)

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

Fitzcarraldo Editions

150 books — 50 voters

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Tenth of December by George Saunders

Best Short Story Collections

1,600 books — 911 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Nobel Prize Contenders

78 books — 69 voters

Tenth of December by George Saunders

Best Modern Short Story Collections of the 21st Century

49 books — 40 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Vonnegut's Best

37 books — 631 voters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Queer Adult Fiction by Authors of Color

159 books — 45 voters

The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik

Random House Spring 2021 Preview

30 books — 11 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

The Great American Novel

672 books — 1,107 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

1,441 books — 1,630 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Penguin Modern Classics

405 books — 491 voters

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

4,080 books — 26,881 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

754 books — 406 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Legend of the Wandering King by Laura Gallego García

168 books — 174 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet

763 books — 1,841 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Watchmen by Alan Moore

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Postmodern Genius

519 books — 584 voters

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,796 books — 26,028 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Most Difficult Novels

600 books — 2,063 voters

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

Collections of Short Stories

2,943 books — 2,088 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

Ulysses by James Joyce

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

2,716 books — 13,294 voters

Shōgun by James Clavell

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,878 books — 7,002 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Books That Exceeded Your Expectations

15,738 books — 18,026 voters

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer

132 books — 235 voters

Shōgun by James Clavell

Best Historical Fiction

8,131 books — 26,941 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Best Southern Literature

1,400 books — 2,618 voters

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Best Fantasy World

1,714 books — 2,165 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,756 books — 27,024 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Best Books Ever

79,078 books — 294,811 voters