The Big Books of Fall

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Alex (13 Lists)



The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnA Brief History of Intelligence by Max Solomon BennettThis Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,970 books — 3,656 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerIt by Stephen King
Books you have read more than one time
13,263 books — 8,272 voters

Snow Crash by Neal StephensonThe Stars My Destination by Alfred BesterThe Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinDune by Frank Herbert1984 by George Orwell
Best Science Fiction
3,886 books — 8,014 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienDune by Frank Herbert
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,654 books — 18,678 voters

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,416 books — 8,202 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,122 books — 10,104 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLord of the Flies by William GoldingAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Most Overrated Books
724 books — 668 voters
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
The Worst Books of All Time
8,123 books — 19,915 voters

1984 by George OrwellBreakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. DickThe Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinDune by Frank Herbert
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,819 books — 26,075 voters
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. DickNotes from Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisAgapē Agape by William GaddisSlapstick, or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Sonemic / Rate Your Music: Favorite Books
1,063 books — 205 voters

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Most Difficult Novels
601 books — 2,064 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Holy Bible by AnonymousGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,725 books — 13,301 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky1984 by George OrwellBreakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Books Ever
79,293 books — 295,618 voters