A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jacobo (16 Lists)



Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle by Washington IrvingThe Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPuck Of Pook's Hill by Rudyard KiplingThe Jungle Books by Rudyard KiplingMy Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Libros Para Rita
16 books — 1 voter
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerLight in August by William FaulknerOut of the Silent Planet by C.S. LewisTropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
876 books — 1,269 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Stranger by Albert CamusFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
815 books — 1,159 voters
Justine by Lawrence DurrellPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoGormenghast by Mervyn PeakeThe Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous HuxleySecond Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,164 books — 1,526 voters

Solaris by Stanisław LemDune Messiah by Frank HerbertCosmicomics by Italo CalvinoThe Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence DurrellThe Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,402 books — 1,785 voters
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. TolkienZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoCharlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald DahlRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,921 books — 1,899 voters

Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto EcoThe Number of the Beast by Robert A. HeinleinThe Blind Watchmaker by Richard DawkinsHen's Teeth and Horse's Toes by Stephen Jay GouldGod Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,320 books — 2,449 voters
Ready Player One by Ernest ClineThe Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan BradleyA Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan BradleyWhat If? by Randall Munroe
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,670 books — 14,482 voters

American Gods by Neil GaimanJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeCoraline by Neil GaimanThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanAnansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,204 books — 28,383 voters
The Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil GaimanMy Name Is Red by Orhan PamukThe Diamond Age by Neal StephensonThe Sandman, Vol. 2 by Neil GaimanHogfather by Terry Pratchett
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,128 books — 3,698 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraMacbeth by William ShakespeareFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,935 books — 125,019 voters
The Atrocity Archives by Charles StrossThe Jennifer Morgue by Charles StrossThe Fuller Memorandum by Charles StrossThe Apocalypse Codex by Charles StrossDown on the Farm by Charles Stross
Fantasy/SF Atlas--London
252 books — 97 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,880 voters
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis CarrollCyrano de Bergerac by Edmond RostandIlluminations by Arthur RimbaudThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington IrvingShe by H. Rider Haggard
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,739 books — 6,932 voters

The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil GaimanA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Gaiman Dixit
67 books — 8 voters
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollLord of the Flies by William GoldingCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Best Books Ever
79,401 books — 295,887 voters