Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/5856713-eric-smith">Eric Smith</a> (49 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Eric Smith (49 Lists)

Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

Worst Business Books

8 books — 11 voters

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Worst Overrated Classics

78 books — 27 voters

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Books that don't deserve to be so popular, overrated and annoyingly awful books that sheep love

252 books — 79 voters

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Books that were in my humble opinion wildy overrated to the point of it being nearly a crime

181 books — 105 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction

99 books — 270 voters

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

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,807 books — 49,790 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Best Books of the Decade: 2010s

7,686 books — 14,161 voters

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Washington by Ron Chernow

Truman by David McCullough

The First American by H.W. Brands

The Best American Historical Biographies of All Time

246 books — 133 voters

Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade

On Evolution - Love It Or Hate It

201 books — 105 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson

Books by Black Authors

909 books — 366 voters

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

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Light in August by William Faulkner

Best Southern Gothic Literature

337 books — 499 voters

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Best American Historical Fiction

445 books — 336 voters

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Most Difficult Novels

588 books — 2,043 voters

Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne

Books For Writers

135 books — 83 voters

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Light in August by William Faulkner

Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara

The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

Best Books of the Decade: 1930s

904 books — 1,256 voters

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Best Books of the Decade: 1850s

223 books — 301 voters

Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert

Maldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de Lautréamont

Best Books of the Decade: 1860s

234 books — 398 voters

Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert

Maldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de Lautréamont

Best Books of the Decade: 1870s

258 books — 346 voters

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,130 books — 3,678 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Entertainment Weekly New Classics

104 books — 258 voters

Pea Ridge by William L. Shea

Battles of the American Civll War - Great american civil war books

213 books — 16 voters

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark

Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass

Style by Joseph M. Williams

Best Books on Writing

798 books — 1,327 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Best Historical Fiction

7,392 books — 25,577 voters

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

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

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Favorites from 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die

503 books — 1,055 voters

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Trial by Franz Kafka

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die That Are Available From Project Gutenberg

198 books — 71 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1,320 books — 5,839 voters

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Washington by Ron Chernow

John Quincy Adams by Paul C. Nagel

Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer

The Man Who Saved the Union by H.W. Brands

Best Presidential Biographies (nonfiction)

467 books — 524 voters

Influence by Robert B. Cialdini

Top Marketing Books for Authors

56 books — 63 voters

Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy

Advertising Suggested Reading List

80 books — 52 voters

Positioning by Al Ries

Selling the Invisible by Harry Beckwith

The E-myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber

Strong Business Books

162 books — 120 voters

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