Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/5745485-christopher">Christopher</a> (18 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Christopher (18 Lists)

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

White Noise by Don DeLillo

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

National Book Award Winners

241 books — 204 voters

The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware

Midlife Crisis Novels

159 books — 119 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Odyssey by Homer

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

526 books — 267 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Candide by Voltaire

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Best Humorous Books

4,300 books — 7,856 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,874 books — 7,003 voters

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

World's Greatest Novellas

712 books — 1,441 voters

Othello by William Shakespeare

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

911 books — 285 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

Columbine by Dave Cullen

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,186 books — 11,249 voters

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Ulysses by James Joyce

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

I Should Probably Read This Sometime...

11,286 books — 10,016 voters

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,189 books — 28,374 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

1984 by George Orwell

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,730 books — 25,951 voters

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Best Female Lead Characters

4,846 books — 5,869 voters

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography

5,790 books — 6,323 voters

Bone by Jeff Smith

Habibi by Craig Thompson

Watchmen by Alan Moore

Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosa

Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware

Best Graphic Novels

3,456 books — 6,764 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

The Great American Novel

670 books — 1,089 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

Books With Unforgettable Characters

9,439 books — 8,377 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

1984 by George Orwell

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

1,220 books — 2,755 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Odyssey by Homer

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Habibi by Craig Thompson

Best Love Stories

5,198 books — 9,629 voters