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

149 books — 44 voters

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Tenth of December by George Saunders

Best Short Story Collections

1,553 books — 857 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Nobel Prize Contenders

77 books — 65 voters

Tenth of December by George Saunders

Best Modern Short Story Collections of the 21st Century

47 books — 38 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Vonnegut's Best

37 books — 632 voters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Queer Adult Fiction by Authors of Color

148 books — 43 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

670 books — 1,089 voters

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

1,373 books — 1,496 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Penguin Modern Classics

411 books — 484 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

3,732 books — 25,961 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

742 books — 398 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Legend of the Wandering King by Laura Gallego García

167 books — 173 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

745 books — 1,814 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Watchmen by Alan Moore

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Postmodern Genius

508 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

8,330 books — 24,582 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

588 books — 2,044 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

2,893 books — 2,037 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Ulysses by James Joyce

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

2,592 books — 13,121 voters

Shōgun by James Clavell

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,874 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

14,650 books — 16,270 voters

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer

126 books — 224 voters

Shōgun by James Clavell

Best Historical Fiction

7,322 books — 25,532 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Best Southern Literature

1,342 books — 2,573 voters

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Best Fantasy World

1,644 books — 1,994 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)

4,185 books — 25,689 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

75,940 books — 281,850 voters