The Big Books of Fall

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Alejandro Teruel (26 Lists)



Julius Caesar by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Complete Essays by Michel de MontaigneThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliMuch Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
189 books — 546 voters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 356 voters

The Conference of the Birds by Attar of NishapurOrkneyinga Saga by Joseph AndersonPoema de Mío Cid by AnonymousThe Mabinogion by Charlotte GuestLa Chanson de Roland by Unknown
Best Books of the 12th Century
62 books — 153 voters
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar KhayyámThe Pillow Book by Sei ShōnagonThe Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki ShikibuAs I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by Lady Sarashina
Best Books of the 11th Century
24 books — 114 voters

Beowulf by Seamus HeaneyThe Táin by Anonymous
Best Books of the 10th Century
13 books — 72 voters
Dubliners by James JoyceAnimal Farm by George OrwellOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,826 books — 49,874 voters

Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazThe Audacity of Hope by Barack ObamaBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,839 books — 22,515 voters
I, Robot by Isaac AsimovThe Cyberiad by Stanisław LemThe Rest of the Robots by Isaac AsimovR.U.R. by Karel ČapekDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
If You Love Robots
149 books — 94 voters

The Futurological Congress by Stanisław LemAnimal Farm by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinI, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Best Science Fiction
3,879 books — 7,981 voters
La carpa y otros cuentos by Federico VegasMargarita Infanta by Francisco SuniagaInvertebrados y otros relatos by Jose Luis Palacios
Narrativa venezolana: libros de cuentos (2000 en adelante)
30 books — 5 voters

La Otra Isla by Francisco SuniagaEl Pasajero de Truman by Francisco SuniagaEsta Gente by Francisco SuniagaLiubliana by Eduardo Sánchez RugelesFalke by Federico Vegas
Narrativa venezolana: novela (2000 en adelante)
83 books — 27 voters
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftSongs of Innocence and of Experience by William BlakeThe Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonDon Karlos by Friedrich Schiller
Best Books of the 18th Century
373 books — 1,015 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraMacbeth by William ShakespeareParadise Lost by John MiltonHamlet by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 17th Century
334 books — 712 voters
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas MaloryThe Poems of François Villon by François Villon
Best Books of the 15th Century
72 books — 163 voters

Njal's Saga by AnonymousSaga di Hrafnkell by AnonymousEgil's Saga by AnonymousLaxdæla Saga by UnknownThe Vinland Sagas by Unknown
Best Books of the 13th Century
72 books — 187 voters
Domain-Driven Design by Eric EvansThe Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.Design Patterns by Erich GammaHead First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman
Best Books for IT Architects
19 books — 18 voters

The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.The C Programming Language by Brian W. KernighanRefactoring by Martin FowlerDomain-Driven Design by Eric EvanseXtreme Programming eXplained by Kent Beck
software-development
71 books — 91 voters
The Elephant Man by Bernard PomeranceA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward AlbeeThe Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. KaufmanIncident at Vichy by Arthur Miller
Best American Plays
253 books — 368 voters

To Engineer Is Human by Henry PetroskiThe Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. NormanThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. TufteEnvisioning Information by Edward R. TufteVisual Explanations by Edward R. Tufte
Best Design Books
121 books — 97 voters
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
All kinds of classics that should be read at least once
498 books — 235 voters

How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell HuffThe Double Helix by James D. WatsonThe Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl PopperA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,956 books — 3,650 voters
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonThe Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerEuclid's Elements by EuclidIntroductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
The Most Influential Books
1,499 books — 5,319 voters

The Exploits and Subtleties of Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah
Best Philosophical Literature
1,215 books — 2,803 voters
The Odyssey by HomerOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,884 books — 124,811 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustThe Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence DurrellFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoDubliners by James Joyce
Best Books Ever
79,146 books — 295,086 voters
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAnimal Farm by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,090 books — 26,899 voters