The Big Books of Fall

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Joy (265 Lists)



The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
Translated Books Project
524 books — 75 voters
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
WW2: Many Perspectives
538 books — 272 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell1984 by George OrwellThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Government in Fiction
196 books — 70 voters
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerVisions of Glory by Barbara Grizzuti HarrisonThe Last Year of the War by Shirley Nelson
Small, Offbeat Religion Memoirs
282 books — 315 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenRebecca by Daphne du MaurierA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens1984 by George OrwellI Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Best Beginning of a Novel
148 books — 170 voters
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithMcSorley's Wonderful Saloon by Joseph MitchellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Color of Water by James McBrideThe Great Bridge by David McCullough
I Love New York City
611 books — 382 voters

The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. FarrellThe Towers of Trebizond by Rose MacaulayA High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
New York Review Books - Classics
633 books — 913 voters
Skippy Dies by Paul MurrayThe Uncommon Reader by Alan BennettSpies by Michael FraynI Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing
103 books — 28 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Bucket List Books
272 books — 69 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Swerve by Stephen GreenblattThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Book Bucket "Top 10 Books" Challenge Compilation
1,080 books — 370 voters

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodA Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Canadian Fiction
1,042 books — 605 voters
A God in Ruins by Kate AtkinsonThe Shore by Sara TaylorThe Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Goodreads Picks For Tournament of Books 2016
284 books — 1,362 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Funniest Novels of All Time
1,458 books — 2,339 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Uncommon Reader by Alan BennettThe Towers of Trebizond by Rose MacaulayMr. Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric HodginsA Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell
"Comedy" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"
151 books — 105 voters

A Hole in the World by Richard RhodesAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Non-fiction Dysfunctional Families
93 books — 145 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueA High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
758 books — 1,135 voters

All God's Dangers by Theodore Rosengarten
Unfamous Real Life Heroes / Heroines
40 books — 26 voters
Here at The New Yorker by Brendan Gill
Books about The New Yorker Magazine
8 books — 4 voters

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fiction and Nonfiction about Banning/Banned Books
123 books — 106 voters
1984 by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Books that Were Most Ahead of their Time
24 books — 39 voters

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckCatch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
Forbidden books (now often considered classics)
136 books — 92 voters
Letters from the Earth by Mark TwainThe Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
Notable Atheist Books
599 books — 1,001 voters

Blood and Thunder by Hampton SidesThe Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit
Books Set in New Mexico
631 books — 170 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
A Heady Brew - Weimar Germany (1918-1933)
127 books — 35 voters

The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraCold Mountain by Charles FrazierGettysburg by Stephen W. Sears
American Civil War Books (fiction and nonfiction)
451 books — 294 voters
1984 by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueHiroshima by John HerseyThe Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Books that make you think.
1,182 books — 1,228 voters

The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt1968 by Mark KurlanskyKepler's Witch by James A. ConnorThe Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon DavisThe Proud Tower by Barbara W. Tuchman
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,917 books — 2,283 voters
Then We Came to the End by Joshua FerrisStone's Fall by Iain Pears
Novels about Business People
76 books — 26 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Retro Reads
164 books — 136 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckFive Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
876 books — 1,269 voters


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