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 — 56 voters

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Tenth of December by George Saunders

Best Short Story Collections

1,608 books — 928 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Nobel Prize Contenders

81 books — 72 voters

Tenth of December by George Saunders

Best Modern Short Story Collections of the 21st Century

61 books — 52 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

163 books — 47 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

703 books — 1,119 voters

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

1,472 books — 1,637 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Penguin Modern Classics

406 books — 492 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

4,160 books — 27,053 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

813 books — 406 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Legend of the Wandering King by Laura Gallego García

174 books — 166 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

782 books — 1,843 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Watchmen by Alan Moore

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Postmodern Genius

518 books — 583 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

8,938 books — 26,346 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

601 books — 2,065 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

2,986 books — 2,111 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

2,746 books — 13,317 voters

Shōgun by James Clavell

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,879 books — 7,005 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

16,030 books — 18,743 voters

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer

133 books — 234 voters

Shōgun by James Clavell

Best Historical Fiction

8,407 books — 27,583 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Best Southern Literature

1,422 books — 2,701 voters

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Best Fantasy World

1,737 books — 2,217 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)

4,895 books — 27,133 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

80,170 books — 298,967 voters