Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/5208303-maxine">Maxine</a> (24 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Maxine (24 Lists)

The Reaping by Bernard Taylor

Valancourt Books' Paperbacks From Hell

22 books — 15 voters

HP Lovecraft in the Comics by Ralph E. Vaughan

Books that would have appalled H.P. Lovecraft

44 books — 42 voters

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Best Historical Fiction

7,448 books — 25,643 voters

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Sequels or retellings of classics NOT written by the author of the original

210 books — 87 voters

Doctor Who by John Dorney

Best Doctor Who Audio Dramas

150 books — 17 voters

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Roots by Alex Haley

A Slave No More by David W. Blight

Best American Civil War Books

1,007 books — 984 voters

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

The Holy Bible by Anonymous

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Das Kapital by Karl Marx

The Most Influential Books

1,461 books — 5,286 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Best Conservative Books

527 books — 322 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Left-wing Science Fiction and Fantasy

335 books — 253 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Best Progressive Reads

1,057 books — 710 voters

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan

661 books — 1,265 voters

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Odyssey by Homer

1984 by George Orwell

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List

100 books — 1,709 voters

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Rel... by Bertrand Russell

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

Notable Atheist Books

552 books — 950 voters

Godless by Ann Coulter

Miles to Go by Miley Cyrus

How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann Coulter

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter

Slander by Ann Coulter

Books I Have No Intention of Reading

1,638 books — 5,991 voters

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

Best Children's Books

5,321 books — 6,716 voters

The Shining by Stephen King

The Book Was Better Than the Movie

1,561 books — 18,686 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch

Best Feminist Fiction

1,499 books — 2,671 voters

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Best Urban Fantasy

4,427 books — 12,569 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

31,853 books — 121,127 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell

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

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Best Books Ever

76,794 books — 285,782 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

Ulysses by James Joyce

Sabriel by Garth Nix

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

What To Read Next

20,578 books — 24,423 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

1984 by George Orwell

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,899 books — 49,788 voters

The Absolute Sandman, Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,248 books — 25,919 voters

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Worst Books of All Time

8,096 books — 19,873 voters