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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Vrixton Phillips (35 Lists)



The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SterneI, Claudius by Robert GravesDictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
Metafiction
446 books — 583 voters
Autobiography of Red by Anne CarsonThe Waves by Virginia Woolf
Books with Innovative Book Design / Structure
306 books — 551 voters

How to Write a Thesis by Umberto EcoAlan Moore's Writing for Comics by Alan MooreWriting the Fiction Series by Karen S. WiesnerThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Best Books on Writing
804 books — 1,342 voters
The Republic by Plato
Best World Philosophy Book
955 books — 1,428 voters

The Art of the Infinite by Robert M. Kaplan
Best Books About Mathematics
458 books — 675 voters
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
Classic Gay Male Literature
287 books — 164 voters

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
763 books — 1,834 voters
Basilica by R.A. Scotti
The Italian Renaissance
298 books — 185 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellHamlet by William ShakespeareBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Crucible by Arthur MillerThe Stranger by Albert Camus
101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers
101 books — 85 voters
The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev
Best Russian Literature
525 books — 2,313 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crash Course in Slavic Literature
443 books — 233 voters
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
Books that punch life and happiness in the gut, and make the reader want to go to the nearest bridge over water and jump (but they don't, because that would be horrible)
231 books — 165 voters

The Waves by Virginia WoolfOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonRequiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,332 books — 5,902 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Geofiction: World building for the love of it
171 books — 53 voters

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova
Modernism - An Alternate Canon
101 books — 39 voters
The Waves by Virginia WoolfWar & War by László KrasznahorkaiMolloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel BeckettAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Books Which NR Ought to Read But Has Not Read YET
81 books — 43 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Waves by Virginia WoolfKing Lear by William ShakespeareThe Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
The Book Bucket "Top 10 Books" Challenge Compilation
1,080 books — 369 voters
The Oedipus Cycle by SophoclesMedea by EuripidesOedipus Rex by Sophocles
Ancient Greek Drama
147 books — 55 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Belle Époque
384 books — 153 voters
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Books You Read Because of a Teacher
234 books — 48 voters

The Faerie Queene by Edmund SpenserSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Big Fat Fiction - Best of the Heavyweights
292 books — 156 voters
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
Thickest Books Ever
892 books — 2,488 voters

Orlando by Virginia WoolfThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men
1,195 books — 345 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
600 books — 2,065 voters

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Trippy Books
855 books — 909 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
"50 Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read" by China Miéville
53 books — 113 voters

The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry
Best Books on Writing Poetry
115 books — 132 voters
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,878 books — 7,000 voters

King Lear by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
109 books — 1,248 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
The ONE Book You Want Everyone to Read
55 books — 66 voters


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