Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/5863254-ayreon">Ayreon</a> (30 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ayreon (30 Lists)

Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge

Our Hearts Were Young And Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner

The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd

The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

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51 books — 18 voters

Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff

World War One Literature

224 books — 357 voters

We Think the World of You by J.R. Ackerley

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

New York Review Books (NYRB) Classics: A Guide

36 books — 24 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

Favorite Virago Modern Classics

270 books — 206 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

1984 by George Orwell

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Best British and Irish Literature

1,169 books — 1,111 voters

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own M... by Catherynne M. Valente

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

I Picked It Up Because of the Title

7,926 books — 2,083 voters

To Bed With Grand Music by Marghanita Laski

Mariana by Monica Dickens

Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple

The Priory by Dorothy Whipple

They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple

Best Persephone Books

150 books — 165 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,332 books — 24,670 voters

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

The Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Best Graphic Novels

3,453 books — 6,768 voters

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Different Seasons by Stephen King

I Only Watched the Movie!

1,222 books — 6,121 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Harry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. Rowling

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,188 books — 28,375 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

The Book Was Better Than the Movie

1,561 books — 18,687 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

1,064 books — 719 voters

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,228 books — 8,060 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class

625 books — 2,752 voters

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Best Historical Fiction

7,408 books — 25,587 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,807 books — 49,782 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,607 books — 13,137 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee

Booker Prize Winners

60 books — 1,986 voters

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Most Poetic Book Titles

2,064 books — 892 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Best Books Ever

76,218 books — 283,448 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,209 books — 25,727 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,129 books — 3,677 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,751 books — 25,990 voters

Night by Elie Wiesel

1984 by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,196 books — 11,301 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Best Young Adult Books

13,096 books — 80,177 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The David Sedaris Box Set by David Sedaris

Best Humorous Books

4,327 books — 7,891 voters

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison

Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella

Best YA Chicklit

570 books — 1,162 voters

Animal Farm / 1984 by George Orwell

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

31,547 books — 120,172 voters

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

The Worst Books of All Time

8,105 books — 19,873 voters