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



Hellfire by Nick ToschesIt Came From Memphis by Robert Gordon
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,483 books — 1,398 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
1,011 books — 2,625 voters

The Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Republic by Plato1984 by George OrwellThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Odyssey by Homer
The Most Influential Books
1,496 books — 5,302 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
123 books — 14 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
78,319 books — 292,037 voters
Milk Spills and One-Log Loads by Frank White
World's oldest authors
6 books — 7 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Top 100 Mysteries of the 20th Century
98 books — 72 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
39 books — 23 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
149 books — 137 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
207 books — 193 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
104 books — 97 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
634 books — 505 voters
Tolstoy by Henri TroyatThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Best Biographies
1,744 books — 3,202 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
1,639 books — 5,992 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
8,120 books — 19,897 voters
Godless by Ann Coulter
Books that seriously piss you off
926 books — 1,094 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
755 books — 657 voters