A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Allan (19 Lists)



Hellfire by Nick ToschesIt Came From Memphis by Robert Gordon
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,522 books — 1,450 voters
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie MeyerFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I Don't Understand All That Fuss
1,033 books — 2,654 voters

The Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Republic by Plato1984 by George OrwellThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Odyssey by Homer
The Most Influential Books
1,499 books — 5,329 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Siddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Books to Make You A Well-Rounded Reader
122 books — 13 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOn the Road by Jack KerouacHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Books Ever
79,432 books — 296,114 voters
Milk Spills and One-Log Loads by Frank White
World's oldest authors
7 books — 8 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Top 100 Mysteries of the 20th Century
100 books — 71 voters
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Sign of Four by Arthur Conan DoyleRaffles by E.W. HornungBleak House by Charles Dickens
19th Century Detectives
40 books — 24 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe 39 Steps by John BuchanThe Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
"Crime" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read" List
150 books — 139 voters
The Man Who Smiled by Henning MankellOne Step Behind by Henning MankellThe Fifth Woman by Henning MankellFirewall by Henning MankellSidetracked by Henning Mankell
Best Wallander Book by Henning Mankell
9 books — 10 voters

Under the Dome by Stephen King
Books That Should Be Made IntoMovies But Haven't
204 books — 189 voters
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyNight Shift by Stephen King’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Scariest Books to Read in the Dark
105 books — 99 voters

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsAll Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotRight Ho, Jeeves by P.G. WodehouseAll Things Bright and Beautiful by James HerriotCheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
Best Lighthearted Literature
644 books — 582 voters
Tolstoy by Henri TroyatThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Best Biographies
1,813 books — 3,306 voters

The Thirty Years War by C.V. WedgwoodThe English Constitution by Walter BagehotThe King's War, 1641-1647 by C.V. WedgwoodThe King's Peace, 1637-1641 by C.V. WedgwoodThe Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga
Great Modern Historians
15 books — 12 voters
Going Rogue by Sarah PalinSarah Palin by Joe Hilley
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,641 books — 5,999 voters

Guilty by Ann CoulterThe Shack by William Paul YoungScientology by L. Ron HubbardBook of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price by The Church of Jesus Christ ...The No Spin Zone by Bill O'Reilly
The Worst Books of All Time
8,125 books — 19,914 voters
Godless by Ann Coulter
Books that seriously piss you off
924 books — 1,093 voters

Ball Four by Jim BoutonThe Boys of Summer by Roger KahnThe Summer Game by Roger AngellThe Glory of Their Times by Lawrence S. Ritter61* by Ron Smith
Best Baseball Books
761 books — 660 voters