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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Justin (7 Lists)



The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittThe Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2011
155 books — 277 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtrySiddhartha by Hermann HesseCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanA Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Best Books Ever
78,955 books — 294,008 voters

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster WallaceA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster WallaceThis Is Water by David Foster WallaceEating the Dinosaur by Chuck KlostermanMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Best Book of Essays
406 books — 184 voters
I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonThe Illustrated Man by Ray BradburySpace Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,764 books — 25,824 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinEnder’s Game by Orson Scott Card1984 by George Orwell2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
The Best Classical Science Fiction Works
112 books — 153 voters
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiA Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinPulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Amazon.com Best Books of 2011: The Top 100
100 books — 175 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,332 books — 8,174 voters