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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Peter Veen (18 Lists)



The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonGone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Thrillers You Must Read!
5,276 books — 7,723 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe End of Alice by A.M. HomesA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
My Top Books
195 books — 97 voters

Imajica by Clive BarkerWeave World by Clive Barker
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,713 books — 25,742 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Stranger by Albert CamusLord of the Flies by William GoldingDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe Plague by Albert Camus
The Nobel Prize in Literature Goodreads Group Shelf
353 books — 107 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsAnimal Farm by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Road by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,991 books — 26,615 voters
Best Served Cold by Joe AbercrombieThe Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever by Stephen R. DonaldsonWeave World by Clive BarkerMistborn Trilogy Boxed Set by Brandon SandersonTigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Fantasy Books Written for Adults
1,334 books — 1,644 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienDune by Frank HerbertFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
2,986 books — 3,583 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Plague by Albert CamusBeloved by Toni Morrison
Nobel Laureates
674 books — 572 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,823 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,750 books — 6,905 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoI, Claudius by Robert GravesOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Historical Fiction
7,887 books — 26,279 voters
The Blade Itself by Joe AbercrombieMistborn by Brandon SandersonBest Served Cold by Joe AbercrombieThe Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeImajica by Clive Barker
Best Dark Fantasy
551 books — 816 voters

Mistborn by Brandon SandersonThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Most Popular Fantasy on Goodreads
670 books — 1,274 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinIn Search of Schrödinger's Cat by John Gribbin
Best General Science Books
591 books — 497 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin1984 by George Orwell
Good Fantasy/ Science fiction books
872 books — 484 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsMystic River by Dennis LehaneA Taste for Death by P.D. James
Bloomsbury 100 Must Read Crime Novels
104 books — 129 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenRoom by Emma DonoghueThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLife After Life by Kate Atkinson
Over 35 List: Books You Most Want to Read in 2015
1,107 books — 1,717 voters
Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma LagerlöfA Great Deliverance by Elizabeth GeorgeGone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingBring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men
1,194 books — 344 voters