Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/46361972-peter-veen">Peter Veen</a> (18 Lists)

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

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Thrillers You Must Read!

5,541 books — 8,899 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The End of Alice by A.M. Homes

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

197 books — 100 voters

Imajica by Clive Barker

Weave World by Clive Barker

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,896 books — 26,228 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Nobel Prize in Literature Goodreads Group Shelf

353 books — 108 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Yol by Cormac McCarthy

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

4,121 books — 27,028 voters

Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson

Weave World by Clive Barker

Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set by Brandon Sanderson

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

Fantasy Books Written for Adults

1,363 books — 1,728 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Dune by Frank Herbert

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

3,042 books — 3,803 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Plague by Albert Camus

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Nobel Laureates

674 books — 577 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,818 books — 49,893 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,744 books — 6,934 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Best Historical Fiction

8,300 books — 27,350 voters

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake

Imajica by Clive Barker

Best Dark Fantasy

607 books — 915 voters

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Most Popular Fantasy on Goodreads

452 books — 1,278 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

In Search of Schrödinger's Cat by John Gribbin

Best General Science Books

595 books — 520 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

1984 by George Orwell

Good Fantasy/ Science fiction books

882 books — 526 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

A Taste for Death by P.D. James

Bloomsbury 100 Must Read Crime Novels

106 books — 131 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Over 35 List: Books You Most Want to Read in 2015

1,108 books — 1,717 voters

Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf

A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men

1,200 books — 348 voters