Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by A Thompson (10 Lists)



Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Periodic Table by Primo LeviGateway by Frederik Pohl
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,884 voters
Watchmen by Alan MooreThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroFoucault’s Pendulum by Umberto EcoThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,433 voters

Disgrace by J.M. CoetzeeCivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George SaundersTime's Arrow by Martin AmisVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,137 books — 3,678 voters
On Writing by Stephen KingFun Home by Alison BechdelThe Plot Against America by Philip RothThe Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,365 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Plot Against America by Philip RothA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,854 books — 22,188 voters
Annihilation by Jeff VandermeerThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganUprooted by Naomi NovikThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,703 books — 14,274 voters

Bossypants by Tina Fey
Best Audiobooks Ever
1,973 books — 2,840 voters
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
The Worst Books of All Time
8,096 books — 19,870 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card1984 by George OrwellGateway by Frederik PohlDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,559 books — 25,008 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges1984 by George OrwellCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Best Books Ever
77,183 books — 287,709 voters