Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Richard (21 Lists)



The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 by Rich Horton
Award-nominated Asian SFF writers
36 books — 22 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry FieldingUlysses by James Joyce
Thickest Books Ever
889 books — 2,487 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyBlindness by José SaramagoThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,245 books — 3,418 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskySelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai GogolNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
514 books — 2,284 voters

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaSt. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen RussellThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai GogolDubliners by James Joyce
Best Short Story Collections
1,552 books — 858 voters
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Books I Regret Reading
2,299 books — 3,225 voters

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Lesser Known Authors
3,952 books — 3,358 voters
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Best New Author Debuts
420 books — 606 voters

Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittStiff by Mary RoachGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,236 books — 8,067 voters
Anything He Wants by Richard WeemsThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaSelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovThe Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Collections of Short Stories
2,897 books — 2,042 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Iliad by Homer
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,851 books — 10,471 voters
Beowulf by UnknownA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best British and Irish Literature
1,171 books — 1,111 voters

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,522 books — 8,562 voters
The Aeneid by Virgil
Best Books About Ancient Rome
738 books — 1,085 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
260 books — 364 voters
The Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckThe Little Match Girl by Hans Christian AndersenNight by Elie WieselDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerBlindness by José Saramago
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,228 books — 3,919 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Odyssey by HomerWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books Ever
76,946 books — 286,366 voters
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. SeussThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlThe Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,563 books — 18,683 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Stranger by Albert CamusOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,788 voters